Quotes About Communication

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

We are taught words, not ideas.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

I do speak my mind a lot more than when I was younger. I guess that's just my Polynesian background. That's how we are: just sit back and try and fit in, try and make everyone else happy.

I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.

In this age of social media, everyone is connected to everyone else.

I think if you push to get to know somebody, it's not a natural evolution.

What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.

Social media is an evolving media. It changes every day.

The art of reading physical tells isn't an exact science.

Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open that conversation if you're telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.

I want to be drafted to a team that knows exactly what they're getting.

When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.

If you listen to my music, you know who I'm talking to, what I'm talking about, and exactly what my message is.

I'm giving fans exactly what they need to hear.

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.