Bill Rancic Quotes

Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

I am a woman, so I never want to hide that or be like, 'I'm one of the boys,' because I'm not. I am aware of our audience. We always aim for the right combo of not hitting people over head but still getting our message across.

If you want to convey a message, you must do so in an enjoyable format.

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

They're the bigots and they're the intolerant ones. There is a way for them, if they wanted to convey a message to the new administration, there was a way to do it that they probably could have been hailed and applauded, but doing it the way they did it totally backfired because it's what you say, it didn't show respect, it seemed taking advantage of an opportunity and so forth. And it wasn't effective.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there and win a debate with the press corps. If that's what I try to do, then I'm going to lose.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

I want to make a film that can reach as many as possible so I want to talk in a language which I can easily communicate with.

Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.

I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.