Quotes About Communication

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.

If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

People want to work with a person, not for a company.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.

Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.

So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn't end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)

I want to do work where I have something to say.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.