Communication : (180) " The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security… and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security. " - Warren Rudman " I think a good director is a good listener. " - Denis Villeneuve " AdNectar specializes in deploying branded virtual items across top social networking properties and applications. Virtual items are images sent to communicate a message between users of social media. " - Nir Eyal " People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there’s been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. " - W. Daniel Hillis " Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. " - Frank Moore Colby " Now we’re e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings. " - Susan Orlean " I use circumlocution too often, and instead of getting my point across, I tend to babble. " - Genevieve Padalecki " I wanted to be heard, not seen. That’s how it all started. " - Miranda Lambert " I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other. " - Frank-Walter Steinmeier " I don’t understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don’t care to. " - Frank Luntz