Quotes About Communication

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on, and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken.

I've worked in two public school districts, Minneapolis and Baltimore, one as a senior leader. And while we might not always have agreed with the union, and we might have had deep differences, they came to the table.

I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public schools, so I never really learned it.

What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.

If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?

Like most people, I hate public speaking.

Public speaking is the number-one fear... even over death!

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.

My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.

What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's just for me, but if it's a piece for a particular publication, I know what they're going to ask for.

I write relationship columns for a couple of publications.

I think the medium or format of distributing things has its own characteristics. I think that an exhibition can communicate certain things that a video can't, and publications communicate that in a different way.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I have people introducing themselves to me: 'I am your publicist; what can I do for you?' But I have never learned how to use a publicist.

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.