Quotes About Communication

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there's a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It's a shame.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is the complete opposite of: you do something a little nice, and you tell everyone.

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.

It is very important to have deep friendships of the opposite sex to learn so much about yourself and what you need as a human.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.

The Democratic Party and DNC have to be a very conspicuous face of the opposition to Donald Trump and all his divisiveness. At the same time, we have to communicate our, I think, positive and inclusive message to everyone.

If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good job of highlighting what's wrong with their argument or their position.

Whenever people speak, you give the opposition the opportunity to use those words as they see fit.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

If you have a more oppressed Internet, you have a more oppressed society.

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.

I'm just comfortable in front of the camera. I'm like the male Oprah.

I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

If there is an option to use a real human being and to have a chat with somebody and do your shopping that way, I do try and do that.

Some people are less comfortable than others using their personal Facebook in the work context. With Facebook at Work, you get the option of completely separating the two.

There are times when you might have a bad training session or a bad day, and although I would often go to a team-mate to have a chat if that were the case, it's also great to have the option of expressing your thoughts in a journal if you don't want to bother anyone.