Quotes About Communication

The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into it, and there are ways I think of doing this, and one of them is through the senses, through the sounds and the smells.

What's great about our leadership is they welcome other ideas.

I only wrote two fan letters in my life. One was to Bette Davis. And one was to Ron Palillo, who played Horshack on 'Welcome Back, Kotter.' And Ron did not write me back, but Bette Davis did.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

I have, with great intentionality, a demeanor that I hope is welcoming for people to not be afraid to talk to me or, you know, ask me a question.

Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.

Little things like that when you go to another country is so welcoming. You meet someone, they're so jolly, they speak the language, it really helps.

You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.

If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

He listens well who takes notes.

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all.

I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Well, I don't think I'm a chef. I'm just someone that... I found a way of speaking. It was not a pen. It was not a brush. It was food.

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.