Bob Nelson Quotes

Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Understanding is a two-way street.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

What I would like is to at least have a discussion with the coach, that he tells me what he thinks. I have to know.

You have to communicate - you have to click - to find automatic reactions with your teammates.

Conversation is a really good way to get things done.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.

People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.