“I think the thing about music is, it's about communication. If you communicate to anyone, whether someone unknown who's a fan or Lady Gaga, I think that always gives you a nice feeling. It's always nice when people say nice things about you. But we tend to think about people as equals.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelingsNiceCommunicationMusic IsCommunicate Author:Susan Ann Sulley
“I think historically there have always been new ways to find an artist. From seeing somebody in a club traditionally to running across them on YouTube, it's always shifting. But the age-old thing holds true: Is the artist unique? Are they talented? And can they communicate? Can they actually reach an audience and hold their attention?” ThinkingRunningArtistAttentionAudienceUniqueCommunicate Author:Matt Serletic
“I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.” ThinkingFilmEasyInterestingModernCommunicationInternetDramaHorrorCommunicateFilmmakerCell PhoneReally InterestingHorror Film Author:Joe Swanberg
“I guess storytelling's always been in my blood. My mom said I was always dressing up and jumping in front of the camera and putting on plays. There must be a part of me that has to express that. If we were living in prehistoric clans, I'd probably be sitting by the campfire taking two stones and showing you how dinosaurs were chasing us. I'd be the one finding a way to communicate and perform.” MomCommunicateMy MomCampfire Author:Amber Valletta
“You can't please everyone. Just because I don't behave a certain way, some folks will say you don't have any street cred. I've pretty much had to put up with that since I was a little kid, just because I was raised to communicate in a certain fashion. Some people didn't like it.” PeopleKidsFashionCommunicateBehaveLittle Kid Author:Wayne Brady
“I think that the authority of Scripture must be accepted by Catholics and Protestants, and that if our doctrinal judgments are not measured by Scripture, then we'll be found lacking, since Scripture communicates divine revelation to us.” ThinkingDivineAuthorityJudgmentCatholicCommunicateAcceptedScriptureRevelations Author:Matthew Levering
“Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because we both are communicating a message, just in different ways. Hip-hop artists talk, we sing. They rap forcefully, we sing gracefully.” DifferentPurposeArtistYouthCommunicateRap Author:Amadou Bagayoko
“I feel like in my life, when I've gone through during some traumatic things, I go so inward and I shut the world out and I become - I don't want to use the word selfish because it's hard circumstances, but when I go through hard stuff, it's difficult for me to communicate with other people, let alone stand up for other people's rights.” PeopleWorldDifficultCircumstancesCommunicateSelfish Author:Allie X
“Music to me is a way of communicating without words.I think music is second to only smell in its ability to transport you without you wanting to be transported. Like if you smell your ex boyfriend's cologne. Like somewhere in public you sort of flinch and look over your shoulder. You wonder if that person is around. Same thing happens with music. It's really influenced my life a lot, even in times when I didn't want it too. A song will affect you in such a cheesy corny way, but you are affected so deeply in the moment despite yourself.” ThinkingMomentsSongAbilityWonderMusic IsCommunicateThings HappenOver YouCornyTransportCheesy Author:Crosby Loggins
“My hope is that design thinking becomes an innovative discipline and not just the trend of the decade. As a nation and globally, we have some of the biggest problems to solve we have ever faced. We need innovative ways to solve our problems and communicating the solutions will be paramount. Original thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration are all important skills for our future.” ThinkingImportantProblemDesignDisciplineSolutionsCommunicateCollaborationOur FutureProblem SolvingInnovative Author:Nancy Duarte
“Often it takes more time to explain a task than to do it yourself, and when you do it yourself there is no data lost in transmission. We have something to learn about how communication works in these settings. Sometimes it takes a really long time to communicate the full meaning of what we want to say.” LongSometimesCommunicationCommunicateTransmissionDo It YourselfReally Long Author:Grant David McCracken
“It's one point to build a singing voice, but giving someone his or her own voice back is something else all together different. Imagine not being able to communicate with your voice and then having it back! It's truly a mind-blowing experience to hear that happen.” GivingDifferentTogetherImagineSingingCommunicate Author:Gary Catona
“The bigger the budget, the more people that you have to coordinate and it's not easy to do that always because, not only do people have trouble communicating in that way, but often there are internal disagreements and everybody is not necessarily on the same page. Even in a big-budget movie with famous actors and directors, everybody could be on a completely different page. The director has to figure out a way of getting everybody on the same page, more or less, and keeping them there.” PeopleDifferentEasyTroubleCommunicateDisagreement Author:Philip Baker Hall
“My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space, and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.” AbilityCommunicationCommunicateCartoonistFacial Expression Author:Jessica Abel
“I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable to me. It's also still a largely uncharted medium with enormous unrealized potential. I like finding new ways to communicate an idea or a feeling, ways that can't be duplicated in other media, so I take great pleasure in the invention and exploration that comics necessitates.” WritingMeanFeelingsPleasureCommunicateInventionArtisticExplorationFilmmaking Author:Jason Lutes
“I lose faith every time I have to start a new page, and this is no joke. I've occasionally been criticized over the past couple of years for publicly "complaining" about how difficult drawing comics is, yet I've only mentioned it so that the younger cartoonists who are trying it out and finding it difficult and painful realize that they're not alone. There's not really any set way of learning how to do this, and it's always a struggle to improve, and, more importantly, see accurately whether or not one's work is communicating any shred of feeling or truth at all.” TryingFeelingsPastDifficultRealizingStruggleCoupleJokesPainfulCommunicateComplainingNot AloneOver The PastCartoonist Author:Chris Ware
“You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you can teach them that they can make their own voices more effective by being able to communicate more clearly and forcefully. It makes people feel more capable when they can write - for instance to make a request - of a politician - and when they are able to receive a reply.” PeopleWritingTeachPoliticianCapableCommunicateMasterpiece Author:Margaret Atwood
“I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with statements that are more nuanced and more contradictory than factual details.” CommunicateContradictoryFactual Author:Sophie
“With a live music performance, the ideas of the richness and complexity of our inner and outer worlds - the emotional world and the external world, like the planets, the weather, and the universe are really washing over you. Your body feels the intention more than your mind analyzing intellectually too much. I've always tried to do this in my music, to make it very direct and bodily, so that it communicates itself immediately, even to someone without prior knowledge of it.” WorldMindUniverseEmotionalDirectIntentionCommunicateComplexityOver You Author:Sophie
“I think I'm a journalist in one sense - I want to communicate to people about certain things that are happening around us, around the world, close or far. In order to transform this information into art you have to add poetry. It's essential.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtCommunicateJournalist Author:Alfredo Jaar
“I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.” PeopleThinkingMeanWinningCommunityPoorPowerfulRichClintonCommunicateAnnoyingPoor PeoplePsychopath Author:Andrew O'Hagan
“I think Trump's presidency represents a completely different model than what we're used to. And I think to your point, yes, he is a great communicator, you know? He uses Twitter to great effect. I just wish he could stick more to the truth, because it's a very effective way of communicating directly with the American people.” PeopleThinkingDifferentWishTruth IsCommunicate Author:James R. Clapper
“Working with Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Stealing Beauty was my first experience of being able to communicate with someone whom I'd think of as a mentor, who'd ask me my opinion and trust me, and believe in me and allow me to do the things that I wanted to do. The film itself was also rare in terms of character most of the scripts I've read are the story of some man, and there might be a love interest or a big woman's part.” ThinkingMenBelieveCharacterFilmTermInterestOpinionCommunicateStealingAsk MeBelieve In MeMentorTrust Me Author:Liv Tyler
“Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindSometimesFeelingsTogetherPoliticalSongSpeakMusic IsCommunicateMoodRock MusicThesis Author:A.C. Newman
“I have learned so much from my dad. Perhaps the biggest thing I've learned from my dad is how to be prepared at all times... whether it's for a big court case or a hostile media interview. My dad always says "Stick to your points, focus on what you are there to get across, and try not to get sidetracked."We are often trying to communicate complicated legal cases or explain laws, and it's important to keep going back to the 3 core points you want people to take away - from interviews, from our radio shows, from meetings, and from court.” PeopleTryingImportantFocusDadMeetingsMy DadCommunicateComplicatedAll TimeKeep GoingI Have LearnedBe Prepared Author:Jay Sekulow
“The positive thing about collaborating is that I cannot get distracted by coding work, because I cannot waste the other collaborator's time in the same way as I can my own. And it's always good to learn how the other person works, learn about techniques, learn social things like: how do you communicate with another person? The music I make with other people I'm much more confident about, I'm a little bit less judgemental of the outcome than with my own stuff because I know it's not only me, it's a more outside of me. Sometimes I even like them better than my own tracks.” PeopleSometimesTrackCommunicateDistractedJudgemental Author:Erik Wiegand
“I'm process-orientated, and people say that about the details. But I love the players. My No. 1 job is to make them better men. My No. 2 job is to make them better at hockey, and I never confuse that. The best people I've ever been around in my life never let me get away with anything - ever. You can have all the details in the world, but if you can't communicate with people and find a way to help them help themselves, you have no chance in this league. To me, that's what the profession is about: getting guys to believe in themselves and each other.” PeopleMenWorldBelieveHelpingGuyChancePlayerLet MeCommunicateProfessionLeagueGet AwayHockey Author:Mike Babcock
“Conversation with animals could happen, but I think it would be easier for it to happen with creatures we share a bit more with - those that have been bred to interact with us, like dogs or horses, or ones to whom we have a natural evolutionary link, like chimps and other nonhuman apes. I mean, we do communicate with dolphins and whales, but we're not trying to get to the depths of their understandings. I feel that with animals as different from us as the whales and dolphins, it's likely to work better with us just watching them and trying to figure them out.” ThinkingTryingMeanDifferentUnderstandingNaturalAnimalShareDogHorseCommunicate Author:Hal Whitehead
“I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.” ThinkingCommunicate Author:John Congleton
“Roger Waters isn't a "great" singer but he's always able to communicate this intense desperation. At times he's not even singing, but shouting. There's no melody and his shouting isn't even in key with the song.” SongWaterSingingCommunicateIntenseMelodyDesperation Author:John Congleton
“Social media has dramatically changed the playing field in terms of crisis communications - and any company that does not effectively use social media to take the pulse of its constituents on a constant basis, and know how to communicate with them in a crisis, is breaching its fiduciary responsibilities to its stakeholders.” TermResponsibilityChangedCommunicationCrisisCommunicateSocial Media Author:Steven Fink
“The birds are already evolving, changing the way that they sing as a result of noise pollution. And we have yet to do that. We're still not communicating. We're not changing our words. We are not testing, not providing this new lexicon for noise-polluted areas.” BirdCommunicateEvolvePollution Author:Gordon Hempton
“Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God.” PeopleEnjoyCommunicate Author:Kieran Hebden
“The climate crowd did a lousy job communicating. Several reports have itemized the fact that over a billion dollars was spent on climate by the environmental side over the past decade. There is simply no excuse for the failure to communicate.” PastEnvironmentalCommunicateExcuseOver The PastNo Excuses Author:Randy Olson
“I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I'd still mostly be hanging out in my apartment reading books and playing with synthesizers. That said, I grew up in Philly, went to college in Philly, lived in Philly afterwards for a while - almost every formative experience in my life has happened in Philly. Whether I like it or not, Philly is all over everything I do for the rest of my life.” BookReadingCollegeDifficultyCommunicateHanging OutReading BooksApartmentAntisocialI Am Pretty Author:Ben Daniels
“Twitter vs Instagram is a left brain versus right brain kind of social media device. Twitter is for speaking, whereas Instagram is for your artistry. It's how we communicate, via visual versus our words. So it's a good workout, it's a good brain workout.” KindBrainCommunicateSocial MediaGood WorkWorkoutArtistry Author:Tamlyn Tomita
“After a while, you're growing up so quickly and you begin to not know your parents anymore. You're left with the memories you had as a kid, but you're not a kid anymore and your experiences are separate. We are now much closer and communicate almost every day. It's a lot of work, but what holds us together is the hope that we will one day be together again.” KidsTogetherParentMemoriesGrowing UpOne DayCommunicate Author:Diane Guerrero
“I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate. So much of modern rock is referencing music from 20 years ago.” RealProblemGrowing UpModernMusic IsCommunicateExpress YourselfRock Music Author:Kele Okereke
“I love acting with very little dialogue. As long as it's supported. I mean, in terms of cinema, you can have a great monologue, but if you're not supported by the images ... You can be feeling things and then you see it back, and you're like, "None of that came across." Or the angle of my face gives it a completely different interpretation than what I was trying to communicate.” GivingTryingMeanLongDifferentFeelingsTermActingCommunicateDialogue Author:Nicole Kidman
“I've always believed that the great strength of the Internet is that it allows us to communicate with each other, it allows debate. And I think that gay marriage is a huge step forward. But debate is throwing ideas about, and when it becomes sort of a weapon of character assassination, I think that's crazy. I think the situation in America is different from in England, where we have civil partnership, and now the vote on gay marriage has been carried, and whether it will go through Parliament I don't know.” ThinkingDifferentCharacterSituationCrazyInternetGayVoteCommunicateDebatePartnershipAlways BelieveGay Marriage Author:Jeremy Irons
“Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more fully than other art forms, I think. It doesn't simply describe an experience, or a feeling, or a moment: it evokes it through, say, rhythm or tone or diction or metaphor. It creates a mood. A poem communicates before it is understood; it's not a fully paraphrasable form, which distinguishes it from other forms of writing.” ThinkingWritingMindArtMomentsFeelingsMetaphorCommunicateMoodRhythmPoetry IsFeeling Alone Author:Nick Laird
“Having access to mobile phones and being able to document your own life brings people together. Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet. It's like our new feathers, our new face paint. We're still trying to find love and friendship and cool music, but now it's over the Internet.” PeopleWorldTryingMomentsTogetherEmotionTechnologyInternetPaintCommunicateFeathersFinding LoveLove And Friendship Author:Robyn
“I definitely learned to communicate with other musicians better. I used to feel so intimidated by guys who can read notes, like, "Oh my god, they're gonna think I'm not even gonna be able to sit at the table." But I've come to see that a lot of these musicians don't know how to read music either, and that made me feel good. I could just come up with ideas or show somebody things and get the ideas across.” ThinkingGuyMusicianCommunicateFeel GoodIntimidated Author:Flying Lotus
“Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.” InterestingMusicianWeaknessCommunicateReally Interesting Author:Flying Lotus
“When I found myself in that situation - that actors are like children, I tried to be successful. And when it worked and I figured out how to communicate that things were good - or at least okay - then I felt pleased.” ChildrenSituationSuccessfulOkayCommunicateBeing Successful Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I've always felt a connection to kids who go to church. I think I'm fundamentally a religiously oriented and religiously minded person. It's very easy for me to communicate with people who have that same grounding, that same vocabulary or modality of thinking and expressing themselves.” PeopleThinkingKidsEasyChurchCommunicate Author:Ayad Akhtar
“In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie actors, they are big about postures and really exaggerated expressions so you can understand how they feel. We use all kinds of techniques from cinema to help communicate emotion.” KindCharacterHelpingEmotionAttentionSilentCommunicateAll KindsPay AttentionCinematography Author:Jenova Chen
“Writers don't want to appear to be stupid. I don't know - maybe people become writers so that they can prove that they're not. Of course getting a book published doesn't mean that they're not stupid. At a certain point you have to stop trying to prove something and write because you need to think about something and want to communicate, in a very broad sense.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingMeanBookStupidProveCommunicateNot Stupid Author:Lynne Tillman
“Barack Obama understands what Ronald Reagan learned, which is that people vote not on the basis of issues and policy details, but on the basis of something deeper, namely, what are your values? Are you authentic? Do you say what you believe? Do you communicate with us? And do we identify with you? You don't know what particular issues are going to come up in the future, so you have to depend on someone's values, and whether they are telling you the truth, and whether you can trust them in office. Obama's been running a campaign on that basis.” PeopleBelieveRunningValuesPolicyOfficeVoteCommunicateBarack Author:George Lakoff
“There's something so free about being a fan and being enthusiastic about stuff - you attract all the other people who are also loving and enthusiastic when you're sending out signals of love. When you start to communicate cynicism and hatred, it leads you down a completely different path.” PeopleDifferentPathHatredCommunicateCynicismEnthusiastic Author:Caitlin Moran