Quotes About Communication

Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it.

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.

All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.

The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.

Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

The goal of online dating is to get offline as quickly as possible.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we're all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers' expectations every day.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.