Adrien Brody Quotes

Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

It's not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you're telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you're in trouble.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

When you're in a conversation, genuinely be in it. Stare people in their eyes. Know what you're talking about. Enjoy that moment.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.