Yalitza Aparicio Quotes

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

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.

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

I'm just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.

If I want to tell a story to 10 people, I don't need a star. If I want to tell it to 10,000 people, the best case scenario is you get an actor and a star.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

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

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

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

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.