Quotes About Communication

It's always hard to talk about music and describe a song.

I tell my stories the way I tell them in real life, the way I talk or describe things.

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

If you see an image and it's just an image, and there's a bad link or no description, and you don't know what that image is, or who took it, or what it's a picture of, it's not a very satisfying or actionable experience.

It doesn't help me to burn bridges, but I'm not going to sit back and be given blame when I don't deserve it.

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.

God designed humans to live in community.

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings.

I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

I think once you know who your man is, and you know his wants and his desires and things like that, and you let him play his position, everything else is just gonna fall into place.

I work from home a lot. I think I get as much work done at the office as at home, and I'm used to working with people who don't work in the office. I don't really care where they are, even if they're on a banana leaf somewhere. If they deliver their work, I am completely fine. I don't need someone sitting at their desk to produce.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

I make it a point to speak to the directors and tell them why I don't want to do a particular role or film. If, despite that, they hold it against me, I cannot help it. I cannot do things that I don't want to just to please someone else.

That TV set in your home has the power to destroy your family.

I'm not going to be one of those interviewers that forensically destroys someone.