Communication Challenge Quotes

Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.

It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

For one thing, my English isn't fantastic, and communicating in the dressing room is not always easy.

Writing is always harder than talking.

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

My Finnish is... I'm sounding like a three-year-old, at my best. It's super hard to really have a conversation, unfortunately. I know a lot of words, and so reading signs and stuff is becoming better, or going to a supermarket. But some specific words, of course, you don't get in your first year.

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Spreading an idea is hard work.

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

We have to deal in 30 second sound bites. It's not your fault. It's not our fault.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

I don't know that hearing people have ever felt that experience of truly being left out. They have easy communication, while deaf people can't join in. It takes more time to communicate with us.