Frank Luntz Quotes

Communication is important.

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

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

It's really the tone that people use to convey things sometimes that can either become a compliment or an insult. It's not always what you are saying, it's about how you say it.

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.