Quotes About Communication

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.

Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

Fighting and arguing amongst brothers are normal. Living together can also cause disagreements. I don't think it will work if there's none.