Quotes About Communication

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our speaking. This tendency often evinces itself in two simple words: 'I know.' But if I know everything, what can I learn? Absolutely nothing.

I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

If it had remained always my band, my natural tendency would have been to get more complex and arrange things more and more. That wouldn't necessarily be good for Eddie, or anyone else in the band.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.

I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.

I get along with Democrats really well, and I think that's something that's unreported. I think it's partly my libertarian tendencies.

I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?

Some people say to me, 'You don't sound very Irish.' It's because I have this tendency to iron out my accent: not because I'm ashamed of it but because it makes my life easier if I don't keep having to repeat myself.

Modern media has a real tendency to focus on the divisions rather than the commonalities.

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

You can only beat a guy down so far before he has a tendency to start listening to what you're saying.

In dealing with athletes or celebrities or people in general, I think there's a tendency to get on their pedestal or their platform and just kind of blow the ink.

We have a tendency to assume or believe saying I love you means we are ready for love, or that hearing it from someone else means they are ready. We just assume that we are on the same page about what it means. We don't know what someone else is thinking, projecting, assuming, expecting when they say that.

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don't even rhyme with T.