Urmila Matondkar Quotes

The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive, and you're likable.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

I believe that the ability to talk to people and have them feeling engaged rather than patronised isn't something you can learn. It's a bit like being able to sing or play cricket. You can either do it, or you can't.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

I always had an ability to listen and give people the space to open up and express themselves, and I was hoping it would translate on TV.

I was all about touching people and influencing people, I always been that type of person. I was the one teaching people things, I just always had a way with my words and I always spoke with substance.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

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

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do.

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.