Quotes About Communication

It's one of those things that always astounds me, when I make a record and it connects with people.

Some of the words that pop up on the show have had terrible connotations. But that's the beauty of 'Countdown.'

In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.

All too often politicians duck issues for fear of the connotations attached to the subject. Leadership, however, means confronting those issues.

I'm more conscious about who I let into my heart, and I'm singing about it.

As film makers or any artiste that put work out there, what you are doing on your level is that you are putting consciousness out into the world.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Whenever I speak, I talk to the collective consciousness of my audience.

Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.

Everything that we say has consequences. I mean, words matter.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.

I get depressed pretty easily but have found the best way to combat it is to surround yourself with people you can talk openly with about it.

Being president isn't a solo position. You surround yourself with highly qualified people that are smarter about issues than you are. But that's not enough. You then have to listen to them.

These days, you're always surrounded by music and sounds, whether you're in the mall or a subway car.

We live surrounded by people who sound like us, vote like us, spend like us. We get only the news we want to. And then scream into the social media echo chamber that is designed to serve us up information we already like.

Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

I think, in this business, you grow up quickly because you are surrounded by adults; you are needing to stay present and stay cautious of what you are saying. I have been working since I was 10, but I also went to public high school, so I know how to handle all of it.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'