Quotes About Communication

We are footballers, so if you've got to play with someone, you've got to play with them. What happens off the pitch, well, you can't get on with everyone you work with.

When you get the relationships right and get to know each other, it really translates onto the pitch.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

You have to play defense for the pitchers.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

We win more business, not because of pitching but because clients say, 'We like the work you're doing.'

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I can't tell you the number of people who pitched something and have no idea whom they are pitching it to. They don't know the background of the investor.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

At Pixar, of course, we have all these people, and they're just used to our process now where it's a discussion; it's a discovery. It's not individual artists going and fussing off by themselves in isolation and then handing their work in.

I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don't discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn't take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart.

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.