Quotes About Communication

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

Just as it takes work to be in a relationship, so it takes work to not be in a relationship.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

Develop a mailing list... anyone who comes through your studio or meets you at art shows or anywhere. It's the power of permission-based marketing. Email your latest work to the list, every month.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

I think the marketing needs work.

Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.