Quotes About Communication

Gossip is poison.

You have to learn where people's funnybone is before you can start to poke fun and work out where that joy lies.

Just because you're sitting at a poker table with some guy doesn't give him the right to say whatever the hell he wants about the way you live your life.

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.

I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.

I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!

There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'

My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

One of my ongoing messages is the importance of families not being polarized. It's important to talk about routines and bring everything into the middle and not to one extreme or another.

Sometimes a polemic tweeter is more important than a normal view.

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.

Even the police have an unlisted number.

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

I try to bridge the gap between police and local communities.

I won't talk to the D.C. police.

I don't know if it's true or not that folks are less likely to tell police when they see things.

I think as a police officer when you're dealing with a member of the public you put something on because you have to appear to be this person who knows what they're talking about, and of course you're also trying to figure out the Rubik's cube of why people behave in the way that they do.

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

If you want to persuade people, you've got to talk with your heart. You've got to talk about why your policies matter to them.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

It's a challenge for monetary policy to communicate that our inflation objective is 2 percent.