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Talk Slogans Print cards that speak to you. Listen to them once in a while.
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Related Strengths Feelings, Can Express Help, Can Ask for Logical Writer, Good |
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Help from your head |
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Semantics: When I use a word, it means just what I intend it to mean.
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Don't speak of action in the passive voice. No action is taken until
someone takes it. |
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. |
Abstract can be harder than concrete. |
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You know what abstract means. Do you know what concretize means? |
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Hamlet.
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Think like a person of action and act like a person of thought. |
To live is not enough for them. They have to talk about it. |
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Dialog is not a solitary task. |
All generalizations are inaccurate. |
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Groucho Marx: I cannot say that I don't disagree with you. |
Sure I talk to myself. I like to talk to someone that understands. |
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If God had wanted people to be smart, He would have given them brains.
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Man shall not live by words alone. |
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78.6% of the figures you hear quoted are made up. |
Do not leave mouth running while the brain is disengaged. |
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King James: Many sayings are attributed to the wrong source. |
Never tell everything you understand. |
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Always get advice. Then ignore it. That’s our advice. |
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate.
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Note to the language channel: You can't handle the truth. |
If talking were walking, people would get farther. |
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The answer is blowin’ in the wind. |
Don't talk about what you were. Talk about what you are becoming. |
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Easier said than done. |
Eliza Doolittle: Tell me no dreams filled with desire. If you're on
fire, show me! |
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Use abstract language to talk about things you don’t understand. |
A wish is a dream your mouth makes. |
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If you have been talking to yourself about a problem, be quiet and
listen for a while. |
Use the cues or the cues will use you. |
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You will find no better advice than your advice to someone else. |
A cue is a password to the quiet parts of your brain. |
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Lily Tomlin: I think we developed language because of our deep need to
complain. |
Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. |
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Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I
understand. |
A meeting of minds is really a meeting of modules. |
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The mouth can talk a good game. |
Reading is no substitute for doing. |
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Some people can talk a good plan. |
A planner speaks with active verbs. |
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Once you hear a lecture on swimming, you never forget what you learned
about lectures. |
If you can watch your words, you know what they mean. |
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Talk does not change behavior. Practice changes behavior. |
A picture in your head is worth a thousand words in your mouth. |
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The Thinker is just a rump on a stump until he gets up and does
something useful. |
A cue is an on-switch for part of your brain. |
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If it is boring, it is not communication. |
Talk is cheap and worth every penny of it. |
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Nobody does anything in the abstract. |
Anybody can talk the talk. You don't get there till you walk the walk.
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There is no such thing as abstract action. |
Doing is in the here and now. Talk is in the there and then. |
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You grow a skill with practice. Talking about it just makes you a
better talker. |
A closed mouth gathers no foot. |
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There are two ways to argue. Neither one works. |
You will not learn much from the sound of your own voice. |
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If you look for truth in words, how many words will you search to find
it? |
The first sign of bad advice is that it starts with, "All you have to do
is..." |
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Clear language causes clear thinking. |
Planning is how you turn talk into action. |
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Complaining is how you avoid fixing. |
Gamer's insight: You don't win just by reading the instructions. |
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Even when you can’t choose what happens, you can choose the name you
give it. |
Do not think of people as labels. Think of people as people. |
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Some people talk so much about what they can't do that they never notice
what they can do. |
Tell yourself what you can't do. Hear a stop sign.
Tell yourself what you can do. What do you hear? |
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Stop complaining. Start planning. |
Wishing is how you turn talk into more talk. |
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If you are talking to yourself, don't just hear. See. |
Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing
it. |
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Keeping it simple is not as simple as you think. |
Don't should on yourself |
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Talk is the earliest form of virtual reality. |
You can get farther on concrete than you can on abstract. |
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The best way to start is with your eyes open and your mouth closed. |
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