Quotes About Communication

There is a difference between being straightforward and careless.

Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward.

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary.

Where I'm at in my relationship with my wife or my family and life in general, I feel like it all comes out in the music. Hopefully, it's always there, but in an ambiguous and abstract way and not real straightforward.

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

I've experienced, in general, in New York, people cut to the chase a little more, and they're a little bit more straightforward. In L.A. I've experienced more wishy-washiness. I will say, though, that the people that are actually from L.A. - like, born and raised in L.A. - are the real nice and genuine people.

We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.

You have to be savvy and sharp and also straightforward with your customer. I think that authenticity is really important.

The best things - when I really feel that I'm communicating, and when I really feel that people are getting it - are simple, straightforward recipes. I think simple is the hardest to achieve because you don't have all those elements to hide behind.

I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell them my thoughts. Language is never a problem.

I think the big difference between most countries and the U.S., is that governments are more straightforward now about their intentions to gather information on private communications.

I am a very sensitive person, especially when it comes to heart-to-heart conversations. I am straightforward and I expect the same from people.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

There's nothing that can put more strain on a relationship than running for office.

I don't have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language and books.

As you would expect, I come from a business background, and the idea that a finance director would be somewhat not working closely with the CEO of a company is very strange to anyone in the business world.

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.