Quotes About Communication

One of the keys for being a positive influence on other people is to keep your complaints and negativity in your head and out of your mouth.

The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham

Risk management is the explicit quantitative declaration of uncertainty. But in some corporate cultures, people aren't allowed to be uncertain. They're allowed to be wrong, but they can't be uncertain. They are obliged to look their bosses and clients in the face and lie rather than show uncertainty about outcomes. Uncertainty is for wimps.

So far, the results confirm the folklore: Programmers seem to be a bit more productive after they've done the estimate themselves, compared to cases in which the manager did it without even consulting them. When the two did the estimating together, the results tended to fall in between.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together.

I used to do interviews - I still do - interviews every day, all day. And you go from maybe doing a couple of professional interviews, where you can hear the sound right, to everyone else sounds like they're at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

My mother, in the last years of her life, became very negative, and it's hard to listen. I remember one day, I said to her, 'It's October 1 today,' and she said, 'I know, isn't it dreadful?' It's hard to listen when somebody's that negative.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.

I don't have all the answers, so my goal is to make sure that the 180-some odd members of the RSC each have a seat at the table where we can talk about their vision.

Being interviewed is an odd experience for me because I was an actor a long time before anyone ever asked me a question about myself. When I started being interviewed, I definitely felt I was being asked to defend or explain myself.

The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.

I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

I don't mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don't like causing it accidentally.

I don't aim to offend.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.