Quotes About Communication

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.

In the ring, you want every one of the 80,000 people in the building to know what you're feeling. On a movie set, every expression you make is going to get picked up times 10. They kept having to dial me back.

I'm not good at picking people up, I'd rather just get to know someone. I'm not an 'opening line' kind of guy; it's not really my scene. But at school, I was good at talking to girls. I wasn't good at making moves, though.

I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I think, in picking a doctor, you should focus less on the degree and more on their knowledge, bedside manner, communication, and patients' experiences.

Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life - who's picking up who and who's cooking dinner.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

I like taking calls while I'm walking Lenny, but it's always awkward, trying to juggle a phone while picking up after your dog.

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

History picks interesting messengers.

It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

I'm cool with Dr. Dre, I have his phone number, and he picks up when I call.

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.

I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.