Quotes About Communication

If I'm on the phone, ordering something, people often tell me to have my mother come to the phone. They don't believe I'm a grown-up.

'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say.

I think 'director' is a very broad term. I like to think of myself as the head collaborator, not the director, because I think, for a lot of people, 'director' connotes giving orders and telling people what to do.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.

I don't like playing to guitar players, actually. I'd rather just play to ordinary people.

Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.

Look at an interview as an organic part of building a relationship.

For me, there is no point in doing a duet unless it is organic or there is an emotional thru line.

I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.

I need to be coming off the pitch every game with my voice gone, and that's something I can bring. I am just someone who likes to organise, make sure everything is well organised, because that makes it a lot easier for yourself too.

When we are organised on the pitch, it is easier to play in defense.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

Leaders in an interconnected organization must be comfortable sitting in the middle of a network, not at the top of an org-chart.

Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.