Quotes About Communication

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you.

I don't consider myself an educator.

I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.

I've always considered myself a master in the art of real talk.

I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

I don't think comedy really does change people's minds; I think you can only get someone who is almost ready to change their mind. You can't change someone from one direction straight into the other, but if you get someone who is considering your view, and you make a good point, there's power in that.

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.

Trump has never been clear and consistent about what he will do as president.

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script.

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

The constructive criticism that I take very seriously is from people I know and respect, and they don't have to be musicians. But I do have to know where they're coming from.

Any show should be open to listening to constructive criticism.