Norbert Leo Butz Quotes

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

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

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

You've got to write for your audience.

Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

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.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.