Christie Brinkley Quotes

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

I think communication is so firsbern.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

I can draw really well.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

When I speak, I am well articulated.

When I was just 13 years old, I even painted cinema posters.