Quotes About Communication

I am not disgruntled. I am frustrated at a lack of leadership. I am frustrated at a lack of urgency to get a head start on developing lifesaving tools for Americans. I'm frustrated at our inability to be heard as scientists. Those things frustrate me.

I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you.

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.

It's urgent that companies tell their own stories on digital platforms.

Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner conversation with people who matter to you? You can't wait five minutes before staring at your phone?

My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.

Sometimes, I check out film sites if a friend sends me the URL.

I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That's just my life. Plus, I love it. It's amazing to connect with so many people.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can't stop.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.