John Paul DeJoria Quotes

I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

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 don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.

Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.

We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.

I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can replace looking someone in the eyes, touching their hand, you know?

My husband doesn't text... It's always phone calls. I like that because you hear the voice the old-fashioned way.

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.

I rarely use the telephone because he may not want to see me. I have a better chance of seeing the man I want to see if I do go. Besides, switchboard girls and secretaries have become very good. They've learned to take you apart. 'Who? Why? What for? What company?' You don't always get by. I seldom call on the phone. I'd rather go.