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Communication -- Eight One-Liners That Stick

What makes for good communication? Results. And effective one-liners are a great way to accomplish just that.

Effective communicators know how to use one-liners to their advantage, whether it‘s creating a catchy tag line that people can‘t easily forget, or creating a bond with the one you‘re speaking with.

A few examples of effective one-liners include:

  • "Bond, James Bond." This may be one of the most famous one-liners out there, but you don‘t have to be a 007 hero to use it. Repeating your name twice (either your first name, or your last name, depending on which one you want them to remember) is a great tool to make your name stick.
  • "I‘ve heard some great things about you," is effective because letting someone know they‘re liked by others almost automatically endears them to you.
  • "We have something in common." It‘s easier to bond with people who you have something in common with, so pointing out what that connection is opens the door to forming a deeper bond.
  • "Let‘s strike while the iron is hot!" Instead of the lukewarm offer to do something at some unspecified point in the future, people who take charge and offer to turn a wish into something more concrete exude productivity and assertiveness.

For the remaining four one liners click the link below.

Lifehack.org



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Posted On Jul 20, 2007
I think Dr Mercola has the best one liner. 

"Take control of your health" 

If you don't no one else will, not even your life time partner.  If you love yourself and want to live a long happy and healthy life then you have to take control of your own health. 


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Posted On Jul 20, 2007
Seaweed, I agree-Dr. Mercola's  "Take Control of Your Health" is the best!

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Posted On Jul 20, 2007
The best one-liners are "yes" and "no".

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Posted On Jul 23, 2007
Maybe

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Posted On Jul 23, 2007
good one

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Posted On Jul 20, 2007
The problem with these efforts, though I admire them trying, is the vending machines, convenience and fast food stores far out strip the school lunch programs ability to compete.

Until school districts (public and private) cease being WHORES, tacking contractual huge kick back$ from the candy, soda and junk food snack manufacturers, allowing these poison brands on, or near, campuses, or in fund raisers, or sporting and other school events, little will change.

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Posted On Jul 21, 2007
GHOST IN THE MACHINE...this comment should be posted under the HUMMUS article?!

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Posted On Jul 20, 2007
"Without your health, you have nothing".

Since I was a young person, my father had repeated this line to me over and over again, but never taught me what it really meant.  Later on in life I grew to understand these words.

Today I live and breath with these words and will carry these words to my grave.

When I was a young mother and now a senior mother, I had instilled these words into my children.  They to, live and breath with these words.

Using words well and with good-will, will instill greatness from all.  Using words to instill harm, will cause great harm to those  that these words were directed to.

"Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never harm me".

Not true, names will harm.

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Posted On Aug 07, 2007

Absolutely, Anna. But you're right, it takes some life experience (of the unfortunate kind) to change your life based on that one-liner. I've been preaching something similar around here for a while but it was not until my husband was recovering from a recent surgery that he began to preach it too.

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Posted On Jul 20, 2007
Nuture Your Health And THRIVE!

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