Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

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?

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.

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

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

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

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

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

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

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

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

Mr. Chairman, I desire to say to those present that their perfect attention will not embarrass me in the least.

I would rather speak to 500 men that would give me their attention that to 100,000 that would not.

A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.

If you can present your case clearly and visually, anyone can understand it. No one has an attention span.

Whether they cheer or whether they boo really doesn't bother me as long as they're paying attention.

Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.

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