Quotes About Communication

People say we live in an age of information overload. Right? I don't know about that, but I just know that I get too many marketing emails.

Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

The relationship with Pep wasn't a very good one.

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

I watch a lot of Hindi films. I live in Hyderabad, where 60 per cent of the people speak Hindi.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

That's the best way to work on a project: talk to the director. In the end, it's the director's idea of how they perceive the movie and how they perceive the characters.

Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.

How pro-lifers are perceived by those who oppose us is important.