Quotes About Communication

I think American life would be better without Twitter, and I think we'd have a better country if the president was not on Twitter. What people say in a bar or a pub doesn't necessarily merit being memorialised.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.

As the head of the public company, you can't say you can't sell, because then you're telling your shareholders that your own personal feelings about your assets are more important than their money. And they won't invest with you if you do that.

In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.

That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

How much information I want to put out in the public domain is my prerogative.

I'm not going to discuss things that are internal party matters and things that are not supposed to be in public domain.

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

I feel that responsibility to really be authentic with people because I think that's what they deserve, especially in a time when it's very easy for people in the public eye to sort of cultivate an image.

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.

I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.

I know I could have a better public image if I were less open, if I ducked more issues and didn't speak out. But it's not my nature.

Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.

It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Many people in public life are not good campaigners.

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

Public opinion isn't formed independently, but driven by narratives from the political class and the media.

Business leaders shape public opinion.