Quotes About Communication

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.

I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.

I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change.

Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.

All directors have their strengths and weaknesses, as all actors have, and all artists. What you try to do is complete the relationship and take care of the stuff that the director won't take care of.

Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.

I know when I listen to people speak and they share their weaknesses, I'm listening, because I can resonate.

Maybe Rock and Elizabeth Warren could team up and shore up each other's weaknesses. Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and all the experience, and The Rock could sell it to the people, 'cause the people could smell what Rock is cooking.

Management relationship, it's very unique. You have to bare all of your weaknesses and warts and all for them to effectively manage you.

In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.