Quotes About Communication

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

I don't write for fame or money, I simply want to share my experiences.

I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.

You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable.

Somebody, just because they are black, too, or just because they are trans, too, or just because they're gay and recognize I'm trans, does that mean you have the familiarity to use certain language? And I don't mean with just me but with the community.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

I think that a lot of teams aren't as close-knit as we are because a lot of the Spanish speakers don't know English and some of the English guys don't care to try and learn Spanish and relate to Latin players.

I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

Some of the people on the teams I've been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don't need that at all - they need to be pushed; more hyped up.

I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity.

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

A company like Adobe, there are dozens of different teams that are using Slack. Each of those elected to use Slack independently.

We have a lot of customers in Japan, but they don't quite get the local content that they always need, so we want to encourage all of our product teams to start thinking globally.