Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.

I don't like to be the only person talking in a room.

The party is defined by the people that are in it, not necessarily the politicians.

I grew up doing theater, so I'm used to working with people where you can definitely ask another person a question or advice or say, "Hey, let's try it this way," or "What do you think if I did it this way?"

I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.

If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.

I think you can talk about anything if the context is correctly arranged. If you set up the context and you bring the audience along carefully enough with you, you can get them to cross the line with you. What I try to do is talk about things that bother me, and I hope that in doing so I bother other people.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

I probably not as likely to say what's on my mind, and I think most people aren't. It's not something I would want to always be doing. So that's why I'm not a politician.

I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

I think sometimes maybe you're going to connect with the audience more than others, but the journey is about getting all there is to get out of this group of people.

I think I'm realizing I've always been able to move people, just getting people to talk.

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

I'm honest. If people aren't putting in the effort, I will definitely let them know because I think that that can only help them.

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.