Quotes About Communication

Knowing what everyone is doing, you can play faster.

There's no faster way to get on the good side of most engineers than making fun of product managers.

It's not just about telling your kids what food is good for you, its about actually saying to them you're doing this because... or if you eat this before you go to football later it'll help you run even faster.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

When someone is wearing a dress that makes her look fat, don't say 'That's a great dress.' It always comes off badly.

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

Fathers need to be made aware of their responsibilities - and that's up to all of us to communicate, as parents, as politicians and as members of a community.

He has nothing to do with me and football really. I don't see any need for us to start talking about football. Some players have relationships with their fathers where they talk football and get into arguments about it. It is something we have never done. It is just a natural thing, he is my dad and not my coach.

I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves internally and externally.

I like to give people information; that's to a fault.

Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.

I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.

You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

It's really how you deal with people. Do people respect you? Are you honest with people even if it's something they don't want to hear? Anyone in Hollywood will tell you I'm extremely up front and honest almost to a fault.

It's not always the fault of the manager when a player is not performing well, I can tell you.

As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.

My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling.

But the general audience, if you want to grow your audience you need to tell stories, you need to have characters, and that's how you bring them in. That's my favorite part of the business.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.