Annie Leibovitz Quotes

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

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.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

We have to teach girls communication skills.

Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot. See, I just said I need to be quiet, but that's not the kind of communication I mean. I mean expressing myself or even standing up for myself. I can sometimes be very passive.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

Effective communication is fascinating to me yet bad communication is just as fascinating. There are lessons to be learned from both. I can't say I am a natural communicator, it's taken a lot of work to be able to develop content relevant to the audience and deliver it with credibility. My initial natural ability tended to be more around the visual display of information. For years I was more comfortable visualizing other people's great thinking. I preferred to be hidden behind the curtain than a thinker myself.

Communication is my thing.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

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