Quotes About Communication

I am a very introvert person who cannot initiate a chat with a stranger.

I mean, I'm pretty sad that I have to leave all of my home friends and I can't see them for basically half a year. That's not a great thing, but we'll FaceTime and stuff. What I'm excited for is to be on the set with all the 'Stranger Things' cast.

No one's arguing that the Internet is evil. But talking about strangers is another conversation you have to have with your kids.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

Talk to strangers. They're never who you think they are at first.

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.

We need to demystify - get out and speak to strangers on the street.

Sharing bad news with strangers is most certainly a selfish act.

We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.

On airplanes, strangers confide in me the most deepest, darkest secrets. And I think they think I'll understand. And I generally do understand.

I convinced my parents to let me see an agent, but because I had been taught never to speak to strangers, I was so quiet during the interview, they said to bring me back when I was older.

Make eye contact with cute strangers. Give guys your email. Email is safer than a number, or at least it feels that way.

I don't often meet with strangers and feel okay about collaborating with them.

I love talking, even to strangers.

The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.