We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Communication is something we all take for granted.
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.
I'm no Thoreau.
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.
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