Quotes About Communication

Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.

Basically, if I don't click with a person, I will never open up.

Why do we even use hashtags? It's just like a sub-thought. Who clicks on hashtags? Nobody.

What's important for that person on the other side of the table, and what's important for the client?

If you don't stay very close to clients and employees you're going to make the wrong decisions.

I've had many ideas come from clients.

We're living in a world where clients constantly are saying to me, 'The most important thing you can do is to tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear.'

Once you become more like Madison Avenue, you become acutely sensitive to what's going to annoy your clients.

Clients want to work with us.

All clients think that they are architects.

Your clients are critical to your business. Don't lose touch with who they are and why they've chosen to do business with you.

I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

I'm not dripping with charisma like many of my friends are. But I do have candour, which is close.

We are a big family; we are all very close, and we always want to talk about what is going on with each other.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

I'm not going to let everyone in, but when I do open up, I trust you. I let you fully in. My close friends, my family, and everyone around me can really appreciate it, and sometimes it's not the easiest to open up to people.

I have a very close relationship with my father. We're in no way estranged.

I have a very close relationship with my daughter.

I assure, the door to politics is never closed. Whatever medium is necessary to reach the masses, I will take that - be it cinema or politics.

Personally, I'm very private, so when my door is closed, it means I'm unavailable, and when it's open, it doesn't mean you can come in.

I've done a lot of shows over a long time, and I've lost my voice on plays before, and it's because I've been thinking closely about what I'm doing with my voice. Babies can scream all day and never lose their voice because they just mean it. As long as you mean it, then it carries you through. It's do it or don't.

I think it's important for a filmmaker to know his actors, because you have to work so closely together and you have to like them or you'll have a horrible time.

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.