Quotes About Communication

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.

We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.

Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.

Modi's masterstroke has always been to blur the battlelines and construct an artificial enemy one that plays into primal instincts of pride and insecurity.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Growing up in a Singaporean Chinese family, for me food is almost the primary means of communication between family members, both immediate and extended... hey, it beats discussing which cousin did better at end of semester exams, or who's getting married next, right?

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

Although many people believe that the primary emphasis of my work is about diet, it's not. What we eat is important, of course, but what comes out of our mouth may be more important than what goes into it.