Quotes About Communication

I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social occasion in Ireland will start shouting and arguing. When the Yeats family lived in Bedford Park, they had to go round to the neighbours to say, 'You might think we are fighting, but this is the way we talk to each other.'

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.

I'm not a person who has people tell me things in parking garages.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Without dialogue, you cannot run parliament. You have to interact.

I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and what is success for us and what's not... without being too parochial about it, I think Aussies are more direct.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

The TMPG is the place where market participants recognize and address their responsibilities to each other.

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

At a moment when people are losing faith in their ability to participate in politics and make themselves heard, the media can play a critical role in reversing that sense of alienation.

My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.

It's very hard to participate in society when you can't talk to people on the medium that they talk to other people on.

Whenever the national para-athletic games are held, information does not reach the athletes. Whether the physically-challenged athletes participate or not, is a different question. But, we should be informed at least by emails.

Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

I don't write for a particular audience.