Kevin J. Anderson Quotes

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we're planning what we'll say next, some exciting story of our own.

I can speak English on the field but it's difficult with media.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Some guys like to talk. What's the problem with that?

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

I think communication is so firsbern.

What you say is what matters.

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

Everyone speaks stupid.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.