Quotes About Communication

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

I never responded to teaching.

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

A good captain is great only if he has a great team.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

Disrespect is bad for the atmosphere around a team.

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

Pilots learn to use human skills to communicate information and make decisions collectively, which creates a shared sense of responsibility among the team for better outcomes.

Some people say I don't love the French national team. If that were the case, I would have said so directly to the coach, because I'm a big boy.

Behind every big artist, there's a big team.

Especially being in a tag team, you're not always in the same place together and you're not always on the same age together.

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

If I come in, and you're an employer, and I say, 'Well, I was a sniper in the Marine Corps. Do you have any sniper positions open?' 'No.' But if I told you that I was good at communication, good at leadership under stressful environments, team management, personnel management, leadership, being prompt, are stuff that I can bring to the table.

Nobody on Earth does a project by himself. So you have to make sure your team is intact.

To be a point guard, to run the team and have the ball in my hands and try to make plays for others - that's who I am.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.