Dorothea Lange Quotes

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.

My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

We either carry our audience with us, or irritate them.

You don’t address their brains. You address their hearts.

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

I want to relate to my fans as much as possible.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

Audiences need to engage with characters.

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.