Quotes On: Communication

Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting, and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.