Quotes About Communication

I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it's not going to work. It's not going to be romantic, and it's probably going to be one-sided.

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

I meet with people in the industry on an ongoing basis.

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, 'Where is the soul in advertising?'

My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world.

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

People online will tell you what they really think - there's no diplomacy. They're honest; it's good to have the feedback immediately.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

Online is another way for all of us to reach people.

A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.

Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.

Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.

I play a lot of 'Scrabble' with my brother online.

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.