Quotes About Communication

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

Spreading an idea is hard work.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.

People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.