Quotes About Communication

We hesitate to call liars out in professional environments because we feel guilty for being suspicious. Calling someone a liar for no good reason is a frightening proposition for most.

After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.

I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

It may be irrational, but if you're local, the client often feels that, if worse comes to worst, they can knock on your door. They 'know where you live.' But when you're remote, they're going to be more suspicious when phone calls go unreturned or emails keep getting 'lost.' Stay on top of communications, and you'll reap the benefits.

Apparently only a third of us know our partners phone PIN, so the majority of people keep it secret. I find that really surprising, I think if my husband's PIN was secret I'd be so suspicious of what he was hiding.

By itself, love is never enough to sustain a relationship.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.

I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie.

It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.

The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.

I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer.

You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about racism, and you are able to be given feedback.

The most important problems we face are complex, and require sustained attention. But we don't speak in terms of nuance or complexity. Is that by accident? It's because our minds have been entrained to expect shorter and shorter bite-sized bits.

I'd say one of my coolest friends is Justin Timberlake, and he texted me once after I played well and he said, 'Swagger on 100!' And I said, OK, cool - whatever that means, I'm in.

If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you're talking about and examine it. And usually they'll swallow it.

I hate when people have food in their mouths and they don't swallow before they talk. Like, they store it in their cheek when they talk to you. It drives me nuts.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.

I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

There's always a better word than a swear word.