Quotes About Communication

My dad sacrificed his relationship with me so I'd be stronger for it. But I could never do it to my kids - I like to have a happy relationship with them.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.

Sadly, I never really tell people what I think. So it's a real treat to play a woman who's able to speak her mind unabashedly.

I have always safely relied on my voice modulations. It has never let me down.

I talk and talk and talk. Boy, do I like to talk. I am a Sagittarius.

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.

You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned.

I like to have something that makes me want to write. Otherwise, I'm just writing for the sake of it. I feel like if I've got something to say, I'll say it the right way.

I'm good at sales. I enjoy it.

If we don't have the actors, or you get the sense that some of the other people involved in making the movie don't necessarily see the movie the way you see it - all those elements, for us, we like having those things feel like they're moving in the same direction.

If there's a problem we can talk to anyone in the band. There's other people around us. Everyone in the band are on the same level. We know and help each other.

We've been married for 60 years. We don't buy anything anymore without being on the same page.

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you can trust and get along with.

It's important when you're coparenting to make sure that you're on the same page.

It's nice to have worked with someone for so long that you're always on the same page.

If you can know a guy off the field, I think it helps you on the field. If all you're doing is talking football, maybe you can't get on the same page.

There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.

Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.'

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.