Quotes About Communication

Chris Paul is a guy I can talk to about different stuff, especially when I played on his team.

I know Chris Paul well. I have a relationship with him.

All my big success has happened since I worked with Paul. I've worked with other people and alone, but I've enjoyed myself more and worked best with him. If he became big-headed that would be fatal, because I'm the bighead in our relationship, and I bully him over work.

Sometimes I have really good ideas, but it is always Paul's language that makes them work. Without him I'd be more clinical, more mundane. What I achieve with him is different to any thing I could ever hope to achieve with any one else.

I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

We need to start talking, to each other, about the issues that matter most. Otherwise, we are just pawns in the game of politics.

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

Pay attention to not only what you're saying or doing but who you're saying and doing it with.

Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.

All I can do is pay attention, listen to what people in Minnesota are saying and do everything I can to bring that voice to Washington.

If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.

When a horse offers their face to you, they're interested in what you are, what you're doing. They're paying attention.

Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

I had a guy on Facebook for, like, years just asking if he could PayPal me money, and of course I have to say no when, really, I'm just like, 'Why wouldn't I? He doesn't want anything for it.'

Bumble gives men a chance to take a step back and not be the macho aggressor that they may not want to be but were socialized to be. We think it makes for a better and more peaceful environment for everyone.

We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

Marriage is not always peaceful.