“My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.” ImportantHardValuesFeltParentHumilityIntegrityDignityCommunicateThirstDignity And RespectTreating OthersThirst For Knowledge Author:Charles Koch
“There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.” PeopleWayFormTheoryCommunicationDrugCommunicateHallucinogenic Drugs Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film is that you can turn the sound off and watch it and have some understanding of what you're seeing.” StoriesFilmTurnsLanguageUnderstandingSoundAbilityWatchesSeeingCommunicationMarkCommunicateHonestlyBridgesGood FilmsAbility To Communicate Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“Hopefully what you do as an actor is strong enough and has enough of an impact that people get what you're trying to communicate.” PeopleTryingEnoughActorsStrongImpactCommunicateHopefullyStrong Enough Author:Christina Ricci
“Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.” KnowsWellsLongCan DoCompanySuccessfulOkayCrisisStrategyAddCommunicateFocusedBoatEmployeeSailing Author:Reid Hoffman
“If you have to conduct layoffs, which is always a regrettable thing, there's kind of three things that are very important. One is to communicate well with your employees in order to help them understand why it is you're doing, and how. Second is to make sure that the employees who are part of the go forward, understand kind of what happened and are not like the ground doesn't keep moving. It's like, okay, we did that, we're moving forward, here we go. And then for the employees that you unfortunately have to let go, try to provide as much support for them as possible.” IfsTryingWellsKindImportantHelpingMovingOrderThreeSupportHappenedLetting GoOkayCommunicateMoving ForwardEmployeeThree ThingsKeep MovingLayoff Author:Reid Hoffman
“For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do that anyway. I love that we will never say exactly what we mean, but we will forever keep trying.” TryingMeanLanguageWishForeverCommunicateImpossibilityGorgeousKeep Trying Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with self-righteousness and elitism.” SelfProblemHabitCommunicateRighteousnessSelf RighteousnessElitism Author:Naomi Wolf
“What the Clintons have always done is embraced challenging. They can't have enough photo opportunities with Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. They communicate to blacks that they agree with their challenging identity. So, in a sense, Hillary is blacker than Barack Obama. Their alignment with this black identity makes them 'black' in a metaphorical sense, I guess.” DoneEnoughOpportunityBlackChallengesIdentityAgreeClintonCommunicateBarackAlsAlignmentMetaphorical Author:Shelby Steele
“If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.” IfsWorldWayLooksDifferentCultureIdentityBecomingCommunicateDifferent WaysOur WorldDiverse Author:Gene Luen Yang
“There is a narrow class of uses of language where you intend to communicate. Communication refers to an effort to get people to understand what one means. And that, certainly, is one use of language and a social use of it. But I don't think it is the only social use of language. Nor are social uses the only uses of language.” PeopleThinkingMeanUseLanguageSocialEffortClassCommunicationCommunicateUse Of Language Author:Noam Chomsky
“This is something which I think I have been able to communicate to both people I have taught and people that have purchased our work since that time, that they all say, it's so nice to have these pots with us all the time and to eat out of them and be in direct contact with them in our homes.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensHomeAbleNiceTaughtDirectCommunicateContactPot Author:Warren MacKenzie
“[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square, in a powerful way.” WayPastChurchPowerfulEmbraceCommunicateCatholicismSquaresPeterPopeBreadthInclusivenessSt PeterBernini Author:George Weigel
“You can't change people's minds, we are not God. We can do our best to do what we do, whatever job we have to bring sort of goodness out there. But we can't change people. As an artist what I can do is to communicate!” PeopleMindI CanJobsArtistCan DoGoodnessCommunicateCan't ChangeYou Can't Change PeopleCan't Change People Author:David LaChapelle
“Some people who make music are instantly very savvy about how they can get their music to communicate in a larger way. For me, the music was always first, and I put a lot of time and effort and thought into making the recordings. But everything else around it, all the things that were necessary to have a career in pop music, I was completely ill equipped to handle.” PeopleWayFirstsEffortCareersIllCommunicatePopsHandlePop MusicSavvy Author:Kurt Ralske
“Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.” BodyEyeFilmFacesEnergyLanguageCommunicationCommunicateBody Language Author:Dakota Fanning
“With all of the characters I've played, I feel like I've tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That's something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.” FeelsPlayCharacterEyeFilmFacesWatchesCommunicateThrough My Eyes Author:Dakota Fanning
“Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.” PeopleSeemsMightSidesHoursRoomsTalkingComputerSevenBoxesCommunicateEightStaringIronicLiving RoomNot TalkingSaying NothingTalking Back Author:Howard Rheingold
“Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.” PeopleAgeLostDealsTalkingDemocracyIssuesMediaCitizensMassConcernRootsCommunicateActiveVotingMass Media Author:Howard Rheingold
“Sometimes when I can't communicate that I'm frustrated, I'll just grab my guitar and I can play out that emotion and be able to cope with whatever is going on. So even being able to, like I said, share this gift with so many other people, it's definitely very therapeutic. It helps me just to focus and to be able to kind of get out those emotions that I'm having without reacting in such a way that's not acceptable in society.” PeopleWayKindSaidI CanSometimesPlayHelpingAbleEmotionFocusShareGuitarCommunicateHelp MeAcceptableFrustratedReactingTherapeutic Author:Kerry James Marshall
“We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go in-between, that can talk to god or communicate ideas. Then there are the talking heads in the news every time we watch TV. No matter how complex, you still need a person there to tell you what happened: a storyteller of sorts. I find that fascinating that we feel so attached to this primitive mode of connection, this primitive interface to the world.” PeopleWorldNeedsFeelsPersonsStillsIdeasMatterTalkingWatchesHappenedTvsNewsConnectionsComplexesSaintCommunicateFascinatingPrimitiveStorytellerInterfacesTalking Heads Author:Vik Muniz
“Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingFirstsSometimesBigsWould BeSongAudienceSeriousBandCommunicateBoringRingsWho I AmCraftsRelateShyAngleLevity Author:Ed Robertson
“When you are dealing with a mass movement, as opposed to a quote-unquote "elite," you are talking to people who don't have time to read long research papers. You have to communicate with them in sound bites, around every other thing they are doing. So it takes a long time to shift people from one message to the next, especially if your foundational narrative was, "The only one thing in the entire world you should be paying attention to is Darfur."” PeopleIfsWorldShouldLongNextSoundAttentionTalkingOne ThingMovementPaperMessagesMassLong TimeResearchCommunicatePay AttentionNarrativeBitesElitesPapersSound BitesDarfur Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“In your relationship with God there are also times when you want to say things and you're trying to find the words to express them. In a human relationship sometimes you struggle for words and you've got to do it, but in a relationship with God he can actually give you a language which enables you to communicate. In a relationship with God you feel things and you want to express them and you're not limited by human language. You can express what you really feel in your heart, through a language that he gives you, and that helps you to communicate with God.” WantGivingFeelsTryingHumansHeartSometimesHelpingLanguageStruggleCommunicateOur RelationshipHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsRelationship With GodHuman Language Author:Nicky Gumbel
“I think that the gifts of the spirit are always subject to the control of the person who's exercising them. You're not forced in to doing it. Love never forces. And therefore 'the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet' is another way it is put. You don't suddenly find yourself taken over by a spirit and find yourself speaking tongues. You're in control, but it's a gift. You can stop and start as you please, but it's a way of communicating with God.” ThinkingWayPersonsSpiritForceTakenSubjectsExercisePleaseCommunicateTongueProphetFinding YourselfAnother WayGifts Of The Spirit Author:Nicky Gumbel
“I wouldn't mind removing all the mistakes I have made. That would be exhausting and take forever. Honestly, it's one of the spells of my life that has been the most perfect. Not because I did the job perfectly, because of course I did it very imperfectly, but because I enjoyed it so much. What would I change? I complain a lot. I whinge, I more or less communicate in levels of complaint so I wish sometimes I didn't just spend all my time saying, 'I'm working so hard, what do I get in return for this?'.” MindSometimesWishPerfectMistakeForeverCommunicateComplainingHonestly Author:Steven Moffat
“We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for individuals and also true for organizations.” ThinkingSometimesIndividualBusyCommunicateToo Busy Author:Sherry Turkle
“As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.” TryingMindArtImportantOkayCommunicateHelpfulBubbles Author:David LaChapelle
“ISIS is going to devolve from physical political emirate, into what Al Qaeda was, which is a covert organization which will go completely underground. But to communicate and to keep propagating their propaganda, after everyone is dead, all their fanboys and whatever surviving leadership that has been operating outside the war or operates in Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan, they will form what we call a "ghost caliphate."” WarPoliticalCommunicateGhostPropagandaAfghanistanSurvivingAl Qaeda Author:Malcolm Wrightson Nance
“I am a very emotional person. I basically think and feel in emotion, so writing is much easier for me than communicating by voice or by talking to somebody just because I can really get into the emotion more succinctly with writing. So I guess that's what makes me a better writer than speaker.” ThinkingWritingEmotionEmotionalCommunicateSpeakers Author:Kelly Oxford
“I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate with one another, interpret our lives, share our dreams, even form our futures. So when I sit down to write every day, I keep the fun, and also what I consider a large cultural project that connects people, at the center of what I'm doing.” PeopleWritingBelieveDreamFunImaginationPowerfulShareCommunicateStorytellingMost PowerfulOur Future Author:Lucy Jane Bledsoe
“Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.” ImportantCharacterAbilityCommunicate Author:Evanna Lynch
“It's most useful to think about not jobs but tasks. And within any given job, there are lots of different tasks. If you're a radiologist maybe reading the images machines can be able to do that better, maybe making the broader diagnosis and communicating it to the patients.” ThinkingDifferentReadingPatientCommunicate Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“Years ago, it wasn't easy to communicate, and it wasn't easy to spread information. We were limited to the few media outlets that controlled viewership around the world and, by consequence, controlled the public opinion. But today, this platform is democratized. Any community around the world can help. That is the great thing about our time.” WorldHelpingTodayEasyCommunityOpinionConsequenceCommunicateSpreadGreat Things Author:Yasmine Elmasri
“Language is the primary way we communicate with each other, and we have really strong feelings about what words mean, and about good language and bad. Those things are really based on sort of an agglutination of half-remembered rules from high school or college, and our own personal views on language and the things we grew up saying, the things we grew up being told not to say.” MeanFeelingsSchoolLanguageStrongCollegeHigh SchoolCommunicateStrong Feeling Author:Kory Stamper
“At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art form that I can use to communicate the truths of the Lord and scripture and my passion, then I'm going to do it. I don't know, I may do a spoken word piece one day, or I may turnaround and try to write a short story. I don't know, it just depends, but anything artistically that I can use I'll try to do it.” WritingTryingArtPassionLordOne DayCommunicateScriptureShort StoryMy PassionSpoken Word Author:Tedashii
“When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.” PeopleThinkingSufferingDifficultEmpathyCommunicate Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“Social media has created an awesome platform not only for the fans to be able to communicate directly with the artist, but for new artists to have a platform to share music. As far as me, I love it because it allows the fans to connect with me.” ArtistShareCommunicateSocial Media Author:LeToya Luckett
“I think that Vladimir Putin has decided, in a very strategic way, to turn the tables and do everything in his power to, as we've described Russian elections as illegitimate, to try and communicate to the rest of the world that Western elections are illegitimate. And it's not just us, we know that now. It's Germany, it's France, it's a number of other countries.” ThinkingWorldTryingCountryElectionWesternCommunicate Author:Robert M. Gates
“One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they entirely fail to communicate with the other side. They therefore have no account of why the religious or the atheists believe what they do, except that they are stupid or deluded. I think philosophers should try and make sense of their disputes with their opponents as far as possible without treating them as idiots. This applies to the religious participants in the debate as much as to the atheists.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveCareReligiousFailingStupidAtheistPhilosopherCommunicateDebateIdiotMake SenseOdd Author:Tim Crane
“Ultimately what we actors are doing is communicating with people who are feeling alone or feeling different or confused or whatever and you're communicating and saying, "Hey, I don't get to know you, but here's a piece of me and you're not alone. We're in this together." Hopefully that communication has maybe made some people feel less alone.” PeopleDifferentFeelingsTogetherCommunicationCommunicateHopefullyConfusedNot AloneFeeling Alone Author:Mae Whitman
“Trans voices are really underrepresented, and trans stories are really underrepresented, and when they are presented, they're often reductive. I was interested in putting a trans person and a trans narrative on stage that didn't fall into cliché, that thought a bit more deeply about the experience of being trans, and how those issues tie into things that we all experience. How we tell the story of our lives, versus what might have actually happened, and how we communicate to our former selves. All of those questions were really interesting to me.” FallInterestingCommunicateReally Interesting Author:Ellie Kendrick
“You think you're being given all of these things: phones that can communicate with other devices, car service that's better than a taxi, all of these amazing things that are available to you at any time. It isn't until you've swum across the river that you can start to see the negative aspects of it all.” ThinkingCarNegativeCommunicateTaxi Author:Neil Gaiman
“My singing - it's who I am, it's all of me and it's my soul. The self expression of using your vocal equipment is not only physical and spiritual, but it's something you can't explain. It's your heart and soul together. Yes, I enjoy acting, but I portray other people. But when I sing, it's just me on that stage, communicating how I feel, how I think and what I believe.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHeartSoulTogetherSpiritualI BelieveEnjoyActingSingingCommunicateHeart And SoulSelf Expression Author:Nia Vardalos
“Always being on the move has strange consequences. I meet so many amazing people, for a night, or sometimes just a few days. And I know they are not going to become people I communicate with every day. Life becomes very ephemeral.” PeopleSometimesMovingNightStrangeConsequenceCommunicateAmazing People Author:Gaspar Claus
“I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.” ThinkingArtDesireCommunicate Author:Willie Herron
“Where my earlier works, what sets them apart is that I didn't need approval and I didn't need permission from anyone because I wasn't being paid. So, to me, I was allowed the freedom, the total freedom to just communicate how I wanted to communicate and my whole level of perspective was to communicate to the barrios, communicate to the gangs and communicate to the people that frequent the thoroughfares that were populated by these gangs and by this life style.” PeopleStylePerspectiveCommunicateGangLife Style Author:Willie Herron
“It is stupid not to talk about sex. It is stupid not to communicate with your spouse and your children. It can't be a taboo.” ChildrenStupidOur ChildrenCommunicateYour ChildrenSpouseTaboo Author:Cheryl James
“My goal onstage is to always have people leave feeling that they received something very special, an inspired feeling that they can take with them and into their lives. That's what the artists I love have always done for me and that's what I have always admired and tried to emulate in my own performances. I still believe that music stands alone in its power to communicate "spirit", whatever that might mean to any given fan. It's a mystery and it's something I still find so exciting and challenging at the same time.” PeopleBelieveMeanDoneFeelingsSpiritArtistGoalChallengesMysterySpecialExcitingInspiredCommunicateStand AloneI Still Believe Author:Edward Kowalczyk
“Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.” PeopleStyleCommunicate Author:Solange Knowles