Quotes About Communication

I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall over myself. It's true that no one has bothered about how I spend my time for a long while. When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell something: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

The best way to know people is to work with them.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.