Quotes About Communication

Sexuality can be difficult to articulate, and we have to be patient and compassionate.

Take heart, and be patient; change takes time but it is possible, and it's way more likely if we can reach out and disagree without demonizing.

I was a hard person to deal with as a patient.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.

I wanted to show people that doctors are humans, too. It's important for us to be around other people - that way, we can understand our patients better rather than just walking into a room, barking orders, and walking out.

Whether we're too embarrassed or shy - or worried that a discussion about cost might affect the quality of our care - it's clear that both doctors and patients need to do more communicating.

Changing age old patriarchal mindsets is a difficult long process and involves constant communication and dialogue.

It would be helpful if broadcasters were willing to be a bit patriotic.

I'm not much at saying patriotic things.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

After Stu, I liked John and George. Then I like Pete Best. Paul I found hard to get close to.

I'm very happy that Paul Ryan has decided to treat Donald Trump like a Zika mosquito: avoid contact, or you will be infected.

With Paul Levesque and the conversations we have had I've found him to be a straight shooter and everything he said with me he kept his word 100%.