Quotes about Communication

He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other.

She realized that she had always felt a sense of light-hearted relaxation in his presence and known that he shared it. He was the only man she knew to whom she could speak without strain or effort. This, she thought, was a mind she respected, an adversary worth matching.

She saw the man below looking at her, she saw the insolent hint of amusement tell her that he knew she did not want him to look at her now. She turned her head away.

In return, I gave him a sounding board for his frustrations.

And you won't have to wake up at four in the morning," she said, a point that I found most compelling.

We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

knew policy; I knew how to consume and process information. It took a while to figure out that my problem wasn't a lack of a ten-point plan. Rather, it was my general inability to boil issues down to their essence, to tell a story that helped explain an increasingly uncertain world to the American people and make them feel that I, as president, could help them navigate it.

Once you became president, people's perceptions of you—even the perceptions of those who knew you best—were inevitably shaped by the media.

I was talking to my lawyer and he was saying we have to meet with somebody right away because they really want to get something done. I said, okay, how about tomorrow? He said, 'Well no, it's going to take at least two weeks.' And I had to explain, 'Where I'm from, right away means if we don't do something in half an hour somebody dies.

Unless we could recognize one another's reality, I'd argue, we would never solve the problems America faced.

Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?

People think it's all a game," she said. "They don't care that there are thousands of men with guns out there who believe every word that's being said.