Quotes About Communication

La lingua è vera, ma la maniera in cui la assorbo e utilizzo sembra finita. Un lessico cercato acquisito, resta per sempre anomalo, come se fosse artefatto, anche se non lo è.

In questo libro la lingua non è soltanto lo strumento ma anche il soggetto. L'italiano resta la maschera, il filtro, lo sbocco, il mezzo. Il distacco senza il quale non riesco a creare niente. Ed è questo nuovo distacco che mi aiuta a mostrare il mio volto.

Pet names are never recorded officially, only uttered and remembered

She refused to think of it as an arranged marriage but knew in her heart that that was what it was. In Rome, she communicated with Navin by e-mail and spoke to him a few times on the phone, conversations heavy with the weight of things to come but lacking the foundation of any lived history between them.

Questo libro mi permette di leggerne altri, di aprire la porta di una nuova lingua. Mi accompagna, ancora adesso, quando vado in vacanza, durante i viaggi. È diventato una necessità.

È bella, certo, ma non c'entra la bellezza. Sembra una lingua con cui devo avere una relazione.

as they near his apartment, he leans toward the plexiglass and says to the driver, in Bengali, 'It's that one, up on the right.' The driver turns around, surprised, smiling. 'I didn't realize,' he says. 'That's okay,' Gogol says, reaching for his wallet. He tips the driver excessively and steps out of the car.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.

I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.