When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and ...
My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to see all the work so many young people are contributing to better their communities on both a local...
I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway c...
I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
Even if you communicate sincerely and your intentions are upright, if people don’t have trust, they speculate your every move...
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are...
The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
With all the money my uncle embezzled over the years, it's no surprise he lives in a gated community. But what is amazing, however, is that he somehow managed to get his own cell.
Decide and communicate what you are for, what you support – not what you are against.
Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another
If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?
Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.
Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.
The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.
Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
At the heart of good communication, is not the process of talking, but that of listening. The first step to improve your listening skills is to stop talking. It is very difficult to talk and listen at the same time.
The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.
If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak two languages you're bilingual. If you speak the language of the opposite sex, you can communicate.
