Quotes About Communication

I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn't know how to deal with it. Maybe it's because I've experienced that sort of thing and I don't know how to say, 'You can't do that. You can't say that to me.'

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different directors in so many different things, a lot of them don't really know how to talk to us.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

Starting the podcast was an experiment. I wouldn't say I was very private, but I was probably as private as the average person.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

But a lot of people think I am very expensive and I charge a lot of money, which is not the case. I am open to all kinds of experimentation and work. So, people should just approach without hesitating or thinking about money!

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

If you want to know what the DJ is playing, just ask. You don't have the right to stick your head in front of my screen as if you're an expert leaning over the shoulder of the apprentice.

You must write to the people's expertise.

My areas of expertise are acting, comedy, radio jockeying.

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

I know there are a lot of experts in the media - a bunch of smart guys out there who know exactly what they're talking about all the time. They don't know what they're talking about.

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

In a democracy, a leader must be the head teacher, someone eager to respond to doubts and questions and explain the need for and the benefits of a new course.

We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.