Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it’s loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There’s almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it’s a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it’s because your mother’s love is conditional or because you’re fundamentally different.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person’s mind.
When you stop talking, you’ve lost your customer. When you turn your back, you’ve lost her.
The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that – if you are from this side or this side – when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security… and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
We have to teach girls communication skills.
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.
In a way, ‘Like Crazy’ keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?
The waste basket is the writer’s best friend.
Breaking Borders’ is about, more than anything, communication and conversation. The best lesson I’ve learned from doing this show is that when there is a breakdown in communication, conflict starts.
I’ve gotten better at calling out coverages, communication, and being vertical when they’re attacking me in the paint.
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.
Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you’re really talking about is the full extent of human communication.
It’s about communication. It’s about honesty. It’s about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don’t try to give them half the story. You don’t try to hide the story. You treat them as – as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
I think everyone has shame about something, whether it’s a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or a lack of communication within their marriage. Everyone can relate to that because we all have something that we’re like, ‘God, I can work on that,’ or, ‘I wish I was better at doing this.’
I’ll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there’s communication.
Perhaps the people of Twitter are more amenable to your babbling than your immediate family, but that doesn’t necessarily make digital communication a beneficial distraction when we have an immediate social environment.
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object – ‘muse,’ if you will, ‘model,’ whatever you call us. It’s that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
I am working on my English skills that will help me on the pitch. Communication between each other makes our job much easier.
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish scientist, and in the 1970s, he would speak of computers controlling most things in the future and self-driving cars and wireless communication. All the things that we are living with now.
It’s all about communication, culture and competing every day.
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That’s generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
A lasting relationship isn’t about marriage. It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.
It’s like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There’s all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?
I would love to create a piece of theater that is devised by a company of actors and creators that I’d put together, and I’d love for it to be nonverbal so it’s something that someone with any communication ability can enjoy.
I don’t understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don’t care to.
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby’s first year and an important influence throughout a person’s life.
Clarity of communication is important.
I think drama in schools shouldn’t be about, ‘Let’s put ‘Annie’ on this year’ – not that there’s anything wrong with that – but it’s a good way of getting kids to interact, and it can be a good communication tool.
I think there’s a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that’s very challenging.
In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven’t talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
My biggest piece of advice when it comes to bullying is to have an open communication about it.
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.
Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.
If you’re like me, food is a medium for communication. It’s an expression of love and affection.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
There’s a high level of communication between all of us at Marvel, and between Marvel and Lucasfilm.
Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s headline.
The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn’t have imagined: a distributed information source, which is invisible to everyone, where you can access anything, and it’s distributed throughout the whole world. Basically, communication is instantaneous.
If there’s one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it’s the military.
