Zachary R. Wood Quotes

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.

I want to spend time sitting down with as many people as possible and learn the important issues before us.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

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

People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

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.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

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 don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

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

You can't make people respond.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

There's not a problem we have that we can't talk out. We can't shout it out.

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behaviour, show, condescention, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel

The recent ghastly strife and anger over the Danish cartoons shows the danger that comes from our failure to listen and to respect what is precious and sacred to others.