Quotes About Communication

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.

I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about it. They find other ways to work it out.

It's great working with directors and with somebody else's vision.

We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.

Advice: Don't wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you're related to — gets shot before you work it out.

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

One thing I want to make clear: You never want to hide from your debts. It doesn't work.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.