Quotes About Communication

I think email's going to be around for, like, another 10,000 years. It's a great way to cross organizational boundaries.

Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.

The truth is that key influencers exist in all effective organizations, but a solid-line org chart won't tell you where they are.

Once I'm on the phone, I just can't say no. I sometimes find myself doing things for three or four organizations in one day.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.

When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.

The organizations that I've worked with, whether I have gotten cut or whether I have excelled, the always communicated with me honestly and openly. The ones that weren't so good, the communication was iffy.

Every session we do we try and talk about the way we want to play, I try to organize the sessions in a way that the players can understand the way I want them to play.

I have a great team in Nashville that works so hard to organize my life and stay way ahead of the game. We're just really open and have a lot of communication and dialogue about making it our goal to keep me home as much as possible - as little time away from the kids as possible.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

Fiction is organized gossip.

Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as 'us and them,' with executives on one side and employees on the other. The divide is both real and expensive.

You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.

To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.

I talked to Oscar about Shanghai SIPG before he made the move.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.