Quotes About Communication

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

Music is the best way that I can communicate with other people.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.