Throughout my scientific career, my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental skill made major contributions to the work; she has eased for me beyond measure the difficulties of communication that accompany deafness; her encouragement and fortitude have been my strongest supports.
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.
It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.
The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.
When you have that privilege of being able to talk directly with your chairman, like I've had with Daniel Levy, that make things a lot easier. Afterwards, I know what we've said to each other, and we have a relationship built on trust.
I speak five languages, which actually makes it easier when you join a new team. You can settle much quicker because you can help team-mates much faster and better. People need to be careful around me, though - I can understand everything.
I think I would find it easier to talk with Nico [Rosenberg] than Lewis [Hamilton], as Lewis is into things that are very distant to me.
That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
I have always been very comfortable behind a microphone. I love talking about basketball, I love being around people, I love being around the game, the travel and the excitement around the arena.
Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.
Little things like that when you go to another country is so welcoming. You meet someone, they're so jolly, they speak the language, it really helps.
The biggest issue for me has been the language because I speak so much German now. I've had to focus on my English and find more words to describe what I want to say and also soften my tone. It was quite stiff from 20 years of speaking German, so when I started speaking more English, oh my god, my tongue was like: 'Argh'!
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
I think English is very important for tennis players. To be on the tour, it's much more easier if you speak English. So that's why I knew that I have to improve my English.
No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
I've been in relationships in the past where communication wasn't great, and when it is, it makes it so much easier to talk to each other.
Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people who write books that you read. You used to have to write a letter to the publisher and hope they passed it along, which they never did.
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
