Quotes About Communication

Some of the first infographics I did started off as notes to myself: trying to plot out, for instance, how IP addresses are allocated. After a while, I thought, 'This is a neat thing I can share with people, and they can follow me along in that process of understanding.'

I don't believe that the world is that crazy that they have nothing to better to do with their time than send me emails and tell me these outlandish stories. So I've started to plot the communities that have come to me on a map.

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.

Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.

I check all the boxes. You have a look, in-ring ability, the ability to speak and communicate. I have all that, plus experience.

What I enjoy most about directing is the chance of working things out with the writer, plus I need their approval and I like the chat.

People thought I was crazy thinking about a phone you can just put in your pocket.

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

One time, a girl dropped her phone in my pocket and I found it and was like, 'There you go.' And she said, 'If you'd had my phone, you'd have had to meet up with me to give it back.'

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

I really think we have a future ahead of us where chat is obviously a big part of it, but I don't think the context of having that little assistant in your pocket is necessarily the only place where it will be.

There's more GPS in the phone in your pocket than on most of our 21st century airliners - that's frightening.

As a DP who mostly does features, I'm normally in a director's pocket, 24/7.

People are carrying around smartphones. They have a video capture device in their pockets twenty-four/seven.

It's amazing what these computers we carry around in our pockets can do. And if anyone wants to, they can know what we're doing.

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

That's kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You're speaking to everyone, but you don't also want to speak for everyone.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.