Roy H. Williams Quotes

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.

Once you get people's attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

You've got to write for your audience.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

The message that you're portraying, that's what drives the type of people that follow you.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

That's really been my passion: to communicate to a broad audience why the technology matters for you.

Those who write clearly have readers.

I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

The medium is the message.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.