Sophia Amoruso Quotes

Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents; I asked to switch projects. I told my husband it was time to get married after six years of dating!

If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator.

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell them my thoughts. Language is never a problem.

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.

Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

Be more assertive with what you want to do.

I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.

"A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Oftentimes, we feel not worthy or we don't want to bother people. We forget to ask for help or what we need or would like. My grandmother used to say that quote to us as kids. It's kind of always stuck with me.

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

You must ask for what you really want.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

Respect is important, if someone has a very clear vision of what they want, as long as they find a way to communicate it, a respectful way…

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

Ask for 100% of what you want 100% of the time.

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.