Quotes About Communication

We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.

Where I've been able to be successful in our company's path is the fact that people think that we kill it, because they don't see our failures. Because we don't talk about them.

When I moved to India, with all due respect, in the last 10 years I have been here, I have seen my biggest failures and it only happened because of lack of understanding. To make things work and happen, you have to know people. I don't like this whole thing of greasing palms.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

I've had my fair share of relationships, including some long distance ones.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song.

It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

I don't believe soul is something you can fake. I'm trying to make my music as real as possible, because I feel this is my form of communicating with the world.

If you're in the fake news, I'm reading your emails.

A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.'

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

You need to be able to communicate what you feel - good or bad. But when I feel things are falling on deaf ears, I take a step back.

If I had a row with my husband, it's not going to work my saying, 'Right, if you don't do what I want, I'm going to walk out.' It doesn't work on any level. What you do is you go in and you say, 'I have a problem. You have a problem. Let's try and sort this out together.' You don't come to an agreement with people who you're falling out with badly.

I have seen marriages falling apart in less than three-six months. I don't want a marriage like that.

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

Falling in love is an absolutely beautiful thing to go through, and why people shouldn't talk about it is beyond me.

Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.

I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never falls asleep.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.