Quotes About Communication

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

When I get a job, I make phone calls to every single person I know and tell them not to bloody call me.

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

I was never a joke teller. I don't even like jokes, for the most part. I don't like to hear them, and rarely can I even remember one.

I'm just a story teller.

I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller of jokes.

I not only want to engage with my fans but want to truly show and express my experiences and potential as a narrator and a story teller.

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

I see myself as a story teller.

Dealing with actors is incredibly complex because they oftentimes are like pieces of clay. They want to be told how you want it done. You have to then decide if you want to be the teller or if you want to give them agency.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Animation is just another way of telling a story.

I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious.

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.

It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.