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Often it’s not what you say that matters. It’s what you barely manage stop yourself from saying.

05.24.2011 by David Murray // 3 Comments

In communication, there are sins—of comission (you say the wrong thing) and of omission (you fail to say the thing that needed to be said).

The same is less often said of heroism in communication.

But it's true:

Sometimes you say the right thing at the right moment in the right way, and you change the world.

And other times, you—well, for instance, yesterday afternoon I needed both my hands to hold my tongue, which was trying to tell Scout that her schooyard nemesis (another seven-year-old girl, after all) is "an asshole."

In life and in communication, it's possible to do good by not doing bad.

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  1. Belstaff Jackets says

    March 14, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    HHH Yes, the design of national policy is important, how our economic development plans for the next five years, how the implementation, how to make our economy even faster. Are designed to advance our focus to invest money in what ways it should be carefully arranged.

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  2. Ipad Priser says

    January 28, 2013 at 3:27 pm

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    Writing Boots: Often it’s not what you say that matters. It’s what you barely manage stop yourself from saying.

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  3. running blog says

    February 6, 2013 at 12:33 pm

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    Writing Boots: Often it’s not what you say that matters. It’s what you barely manage stop yourself from saying.

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