Quotes About Communication

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

I enjoy doing motivational talks with businesses and other organizations. I really enjoy being with people and encouraging them in the work they do.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly on the work that's ahead of us [with Tom Hardey].

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.