Quotes About Communication

But no matter, because we as a nation now take every tweet, every offhanded Facebook comment, or shotgun aside as the gospel truth of a person's sense of the world, when in reality most are typed late at night when people are intoxicated or sleep-deprived or just got in a terrible fight with their spouse.

I'll tell you what else fucks with a kid's optimism and sense of stability: when your parents fight all the time. That shit can really suck. Listening to your parents yell, or cry, or stomp off in anger, or worse, that deafening silence that falls over a home when the two biggest residents aren't speaking to each other, and only reply in jagged monotone when the kids ask for seconds or beg to be excused from the dinner table—that is damaging

Those of us who have been with Jane the longest want to whisper to her, Look how that boy is seeing you. To show her how open he is to the possibility of who she might be, how attenuated to her gaps and omissions.

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

He opened his mouth and out came a rainbow, he thought, recalling the proverb about a person who talks a bigger game than he can deliver.

On these occasions I do feel an urge to talk about my work. Nevertheless, I try not to. If what I have said in my film is true, someone will understand.

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

Whining is anger through a small opening.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

I'm not going to write stuff like, "Mitch McConnell and I may disagree, but when we're off the clock, we're the best of friends—sometimes we go to dinner and Mitch will laugh so hard that milk shoots out of his nose." No, I'm not going to be writing clichés like that. Instead

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

The single most wasteful thing you can do in marketing is try to change a mind.

Don't play semantic games with the prospect. Advertising is not a debate. It's a seduction.

The mind, as a defense against the volume of today's communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered it. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.

Mind-changing is the road to advertising disaster.

If you were forced to drink a beaker of di-hydrogen oxide, your response would probably be negative. If you asked for a glass of water, you might enjoy it. That's right. There's no difference on the palate. The difference, in the brain.

What's called luck is usually an outgrowth of successful communication.

Positioning is an organized system for finding a window in the mind. It is based on the concept that communication can only take place at the right time and under the right circumstances.

Sometimes all you had to do was breathe to ruin somebody's else's day.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.