Quotes About Communication

Work out problems in person, not on e-mail.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

We're being very good team players here and very happy we've got a great working relationship with Reince Priebus and the RNC. They've been spectacular to us.

My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.

Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. You're like, "I'm right here! I'm a person! I'm interesting, too!"

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you.

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'