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Quotes About Communication

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.
~ Alexander Calder
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
~ Howard Barker
All good work requires self-revelation.
~ Sidney Lumet, Making Movies
A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.
~ Greta Scacchi
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say
~ John Prine
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
~ Evan Esar
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."
~ Linda Miles
Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.
~ Scott Berkun
No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.
~ John Craig
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.
~ Lawrence Weiner
When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.
~ Sergio Leone
I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.
~ Marc Quinn
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.
~ Dieter Rams
To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
~ Daniel Goleman
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.
~ Jay Abraham
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
~ Lee Iacocca
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work
~ Dean Smith
I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.
~ Francis Galton
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
~ Dee Hock
To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.
~ Meg Whitman