Quotes About Communication

This media era is amazing. Twitter, Facebook, ESPN, news outlets everywhere.

I give media outlets my direct number.

I do think people would be surprised to know that journalists from various news outlets are in this together in many ways in terms of these long hours and in terms of really sharing a desire to get information to the American people.

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.

In the old days, people would pick up the phone and complain or they'd write a letter. But now they go to Ofcom and they must be sick to death of all of this. Any minor outrage that anyone's got, they go to Ofcom. They must be inundated with minor complaints.

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

People want to engage you by being outraged or faux-outraged at things you're saying, but if you confront them and defend yourself, then people don't like it. But then if you don't and you stay quiet, people don't like that either.

The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a 'gray area' for social interactions.

Don't listen to some outside interpretation - do the scene as it makes sense to you and the other actor.

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'

Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.

To an outsider, understanding an NFL playbook is like trying to read Japanese.

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they don't even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

I would describe myself as outspoken. Not political. Outspoken about what I want to say. There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

My constituents want me to be outspoken - it's part of the reason they elected me - and the inevitable side effect of being outspoken is that, occasionally, you put your foot in your mouth.

Jonathan and I are outspoken. If there's something that's bothering us we just say it, deal with it, and move on.

Yes, I am very outspoken on Twitter.

The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.