Quotes About Communication

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.

I have had the opportunity to speak to the people of South Jersey. I have held Tele-Town Halls, gone to countless events, and met with thousands of the individuals who make up our community.

In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.

When I told my father about Samantha, he simply laughed and said that he is happy and that he already knew about our love story.

That's one of the best things about my job: I get to tell the world about the innovative and meaningful things our people are doing every day.

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.

Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

I think I lead with empathy and connection to our people. I find that the most effective leadership style for me is to just talk and listen. It sounds simple, but it's so effective.

Public Broadcasting is important to our state and our people, and I don't want to see it disappear.

It's important to take time away from the Internet as much as possible. For me, I love working out, and my husband and I do it together in the mornings! And it's really our time to check in with each other, but it's also our time to really not think about work or what's happening on the Internet.

It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.

We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking or, more importantly still, listening.

In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.

So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

Remember, the West's rock or pop was created for their languages, not ours.