“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

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Entry from October 14, 2013

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”

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Wikiquote: George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

Quotes
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
. As quoted in Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71.

Google Books
The Manufacturing Man and His Job
By Robert E. Finley, Henry R. Ziobro and Kevin Allen
New York, NY: American Management Association
1966
Pg. 73:
Are our attitudes, our emotions, influencing how others get through to us? For the greatest barrier to communication is the illusion that it has taken place

The Charger Bulletin (University of New Haven, CT)
USGA Treasurer’s Tip of the Week
by Isaak Kifle | September 18, 2013
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw

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