Quotes About Communication

One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.

In this business, you have so little control over things, but one of the things you can control is who you work with.

One of the things that make actors good is their capacity to listen.

One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.

One thing I always do in the huddle, pre-snap, is make eye contact.

One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.

One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

I was told one time never to go longer than an hour in an interview because you reveal yourself too much, but I never follow that rule.

I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don't just happen. It takes two.

I've maybe gotten broken up with one time, and I like to think that's because I'm a very good girlfriend.

Most men cannot write good sex. I tried one time years ago and showed it to my wife, and she felt like laughing.

I never one time mentioned anything to any coach about retirement or joining the CIA or anything like that.

I feel like team meetings should happen one time a year, and that should be it.

Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.

Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.

I can't tell you how many thousands of small moments that I've had with employees in our company that have been nothing more than a one-on-one. I'll see the baggage-services person, he or she is by himself. I'll pull them off to the side and have a 15-minute conversation about their history, their life, that kind of thing.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

While working in a group is great, on-set especially, it means you just don't get to see the characters one-on-one.

Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.

Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel like they're having a one-on-one conversation, as if they're the only person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level.

What I like to do is have an opportunity to talk with people in neighborhoods and answer their questions one-on-one. I think it's one of the places I have greatest strength.

I generally try to bowl one-on-one with the 'keeper and bowl all the deliveries in my arsenal so that he can have a good look.