Quotes About Communication

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of 'Hi, it's nice to meet you' in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?

You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

I realized that when two people function well together at work, it doesn't matter if they hadn't seen each other for years. What they had before was still intact.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.