Bebe Moore Campbell Quotes

One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move people's hearts and minds with humor, with stories, with anecdotes, with facts and information.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

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

The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

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

If you want to edify, you have to entertain.

It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

'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.

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

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

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something that people want.

Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.

If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it was before, or at the end of the day entertains people, than we've done our job.

If you get somebody laughing - and then stick in a point about something important - they'll remember it.

I know what to say, how to say it, how to bring profile to the issues I care about and people want to listen to me.