Quotes About Communication

If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'

I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.

I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.

When I sit down to do an interview, I try to be polite and answer the questions that I'm asked.

I don't think it is very polite and respectful asking someone out during an interview.

It's nice to work with the same people. You don't have to be polite. You know each other's likes and dislikes, and you don't have to micromanage and look at what they're doing every moment.

I get into an awful lot of trouble for not being polite.

One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.

I think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they're thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.

There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand.

Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

Part of what's great about America, and Canada as well, is that we can talk about our political leaders in public.

Political parties - which too often operate like closed circles - must open up.

Political parties usually try to lay low or provide effective responses to the opposite party's convention.

One political party must behave goodly with another political party, whatever is possible within the political jurisdiction.