Quotes About Communication

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

People seem comfortable with me. And maybe that's got a lot to do with shows like Graham Norton. You just tell it like it is on those programs.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

I was fortunate to write pretty much a year out of film school and start making movies in the Hollywood studio system. But with each progressive film it became more frustrating not being able to speak and say things I wanted to say.

Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

The more senior your management position is, the more important it is to connect the organization or the project to the outside world. You know, how does this fit in with what we're doing? What is the real goal, the real mission?

When you work in a multicast project, there has to be a lot of respect and cooperation from each other.

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

If certain project has content, you don't need flamboyant marketing.

When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.

As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.

The stage is bigger than life. There you are projecting to an audience. In television, you're drawing the camera in to you. And with TV, there isn't that immediate feedback from an audience. You do hours and hours of taping and never get that response.

When people say something to you, they're projecting what they actually feel inside, so you just have to wish them luck, wish them well, send them love.

When I bid out our construction projects, I call contractors personally to close the deal and get the best price or enhance the scope of their deliverable. You don't get what you don't ask for.