Quotes About Communication

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

Women have to be careful to not wear out their husbands on their honeymoons, or they get so weak that they can't go to work!

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.