Direct Communication Quotes

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.

A back channel is a means of communications between two heads of state without going through their respective bureaucracies thus preventing resistance and leaks.

My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.

When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.

If I'm working with you for several months on things, if I have a relationship with you, and I decide one day I'm going to sue you, I'm a country boy at the end of the day. I'm going to pick up the phone and tell you I'm going to sue you.

I knew it straight away when Twitter first came around, and also Facebook, where it was so easy to post, that this was another way to speak directly with people listening to my music. If they found my music and they like it, most likely they want to hear more from me and hear what I'm about. I've put an enormous amount of time into that and it's played out well for me.

I have always liked to speak to people very directly.

What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

I love talking directly to the fans.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

Donald Trump among wishy-washy people, who decide one day they want him, and they want his endorsement, they support him, and the next day they don't. It's much better for him to take the message directly to the people.

I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents, our comedians, and our actors to do that . . . It's funny. You say that people prefer a tasteful formalism - as opposed to an oppressive formalism - but I do feel very strongly that form follows function.

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

Hey, Vickie, why don't you come down here and reprimand me to my face!

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

I am more than proud to be European. I love Europe, I love France, but I have an American mentality, and I don't know why. The way I see things, the way I talk, I'm the kind of person who, if I want to say something, I will say it - sometimes in Europe, it's not always what you need to do.

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

I am very diplomatic when I'm in front of the media or when I am going out for promotions and stuff. But, usually, I'm a very straight forward person.

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

Donald Trump was straight up. I mean, he told me what he thought of me, and that's cool. I might not like it, but at least he did it to my face. That's what Montanans like. They like people to be square with them.