FREE Subscription
The World’s Most Popular Natural Health Newsletter   
 
 
POSTED BY
July 23 2007
67,366 Views

BROWSE BY CATEGORY

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


Did you find this article interesting?  Interesting Not Useful
Community Comments ( 23 )
Comment on this Article
  
  
seaweed
[ Joined on 09/06 ] [ Posted on July 20, 2007 ]
11 Points        
   
 
Savvy User
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. 

 [ Reply ]
Mercola
  
Reesacat
[ Joined on 01/07 ]  [ Posted on July 20, 2007]
3 Points        
   
Savvy User
  Mercola
Seaweed, I agree-Dr. Mercola's  "Take Control of Your Health" is the best!
  
  
Alaskadude
[ Joined on 02/07 ] [ Posted on July 20, 2007 ]
7 Points        
   
 
Savvy User
The best one-liners are "yes" and "no".
 [ Reply ]
Mercola
  
Phantom O' Banjo
[ Joined on 09/06 ]  [ Posted on July 23, 2007]
8 Points        
   
Savvy User
  Mercola
Maybe
Mercola
  
Alaskadude
[ Joined on 02/07 ]  [ Posted on July 23, 2007]
4 Points        
   
Savvy User
  Mercola
good one
  
  
Russ Bianchi
[ Joined on 09/06 ] [ Posted on July 20, 2007 ]
6 Points        
   
 
Savvy User
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.
 [ Reply ]
Mercola
  
Russ Bianchi
[ Joined on 09/06 ]  [ Posted on July 21, 2007]
3 Points        
   
Savvy User
  Mercola
GHOST IN THE MACHINE...this comment should be posted under the HUMMUS article?!
  
  
Arizona
[ Joined on 06/07 ] [ Posted on July 20, 2007 ]
5 Points        
   
 
Savvy User
Anna, I am recovering from chronic fatigue and agree..... if you don't have your health, you have nothing. The past 3 years have been grueling. I feel like life is just passing me by. However, I am close to getting better, so there is light at the end of the tunnel. 
 [ Reply ]
  
  
Russ Bianchi
[ Joined on 09/06 ] [ Posted on July 20, 2007 ]
5 Points        
   
 
Savvy User
Nuture Your Health And THRIVE!

Uncle Russ
 [ Reply ]
  
  
annapavlova42
[ Joined on 02/07 ] [ Posted on July 20, 2007 ]
5 Points        
   
 
Savvy User
"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.

 [ Reply ]
Mercola
  
Amanda Rose
[ Joined on 06/06 ]  [ Posted on August 7, 2007]
       
   
Savvy User
  Mercola

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.

Amanda

  
  
Health 1
[ Joined on 03/07 ] [ Posted on August 8, 2007 ]
       
   
 
Novice User

Here is one of Abraham Lincoln's quotes, which, for various reasons, I often have cause to use.

"No man ever got lost on a straight road."

Blessings to all

Dr. Trudy

 [ Reply ]
  
  
T_rex
[ Joined on 06/07 ] [ Posted on August 8, 2007 ]
       
   
 
Novice User

"Drugs are poison",  is another one-liner that should be repeated often.

 [ Reply ]
  
  
"David"
[ Joined on 08/06 ] [ Posted on August 7, 2007 ]
       
   
 
Savvy User

one of my favourites to make people think bout their eating/drinking/lifestyle habits......

"You can move house as often as you like, but you only have one body.... and if you mess it up....where else are you going to live?" .

and another of mine:

"It is only the nothing in everything, that makes anything... something"

 [ Reply ]
  
  
halcyon
[ Joined on 05/07 ] [ Posted on August 7, 2007 ]
       
   
 
Apprentice User

Here's one, concerning where you should be buying your food:

"Go local, or go loco!"  :)

 [ Reply ]
  
  
jsab
[ Joined on 05/07 ] [ Posted on August 7, 2007 ]
       
   
 
Novice User

In the last couple years of writing/teaching I've found quite a few oneliners to be very helpful. Here's just a few...

Not mine:

"What you resist, persists."

"Stop Fighting Disease. Embrace Health."

"You don’t get sick in one day, and you don’t get healthy in one day."

"Let food be your medicine, let medicine be your food."

"Health is the threshold to your dreams."

"He who angers you, conquers you."

Mine:

"A natural organic body requires natural organic things."

"All diseases are symptoms of an underlying problem."

"Reverse the dis-ease by being at ease."

"It's pretty difficult to be sick and happy at the same time."

"In order for change to happen, change must be made."

"Freedom comes from having no specific "needs" (addictions) outside oneself."

"How is it possible that we already know the truth, if we have problems in our life?"

"Fix the cells and EVERYTHING else is fixed because the body IS cells."

"Cells are either in protection mode or growth mode, and they can't do both at the same time."

"Nothing makes you angry except your decision to be."

"Stress is the result of an individual choosing to accept things negatively."

"The humble in heart have no ego to protect."

"Without our minds interfering, everything just IS."

"We can choose to be happy now or we can live in misery while hoping it comes later."

"Choosing to be happy at all times brings inner wholeness, completion, and peace."

"Choose to be happy right now, all the time, and you will always be happy."

"That which is selfish can't be love because love is selfless."

"Love is experienced by being it yourself."

"What we do is not as important as what we are."

 [ Reply ]
  
  
Komic Kaze
[ Joined on 12/06 ] [ Posted on August 7, 2007 ]
       
   
 
Novice User

Dealing with brain cancer four years ago, I know what it is like to not be healthy and in tremendous pain.  What I would suggest is doing everything you can to make sure your health is improving every day.  There should always be light at the end of the tunnel.  Where there is a will, there is a way.  We all possess the power to take control of our health, and the biggest problem is ignorance.  Many people do not even consider what is in their food and that their lifestyle is overly sedentary.  It is a firm commitment, but it should be ultimately worth it.

 [ Reply ]
  
  
Rogway
[ Joined on 06/06 ] [ Posted on July 26, 2007 ]
       
   
 
Savvy User
STEP----I SAY WATCH YOUR STEP, your about to walk into a prescription only health way store!
 [ Reply ]
  
  
jennifer howard
[ Joined on 01/07 ] [ Posted on July 20, 2007 ]
-6 Points        
   
 
Apprentice User
Stick to health news please!
 [ Reply ]
Mercola
  
Sheila C
[ Joined on 12/06 ]  [ Posted on July 23, 2007]
13 Points        
   
Apprentice User
  Mercola
The FDA's one liner should be:  If we can't be part of the solution, there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
Mercola
  
debatergirl
[ Joined on 07/07 ]  [ Posted on July 23, 2007]
4 Points