Brian McDermott Quotes

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

The voice is a second face.

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

At the end of the day, people don't always remember what it is you said to them, but they remember how you made them feel.

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

It's really the tone that people use to convey things sometimes that can either become a compliment or an insult. It's not always what you are saying, it's about how you say it.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

You don't need the right facts if you have the right inflection.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.