Chris Milk Quotes

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

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

I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

Who's to say who's an expert?

The American people are willing to listen to anyone who has attained prominence. The main fact is that we've heard a man's name a great many times; that makes us ready to accept whatever he says.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

I hope people know that when I'm sitting there, it's not some guy on a desk on a platform with sort of this voice-of-God approach.

You can't say Charles doesn't know what he's talking about.

I know who famous people are, so I listen to them.

When I talk, people listen.

Reputation is the road to power

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

When you put yourself out there as an expert and the people you are trying to attract are people who want to do the very show you are doing, guys standing around, sitting around arguing with each other over sports, if you make a mistake that lights up like a flare in the middle of the night. You've just got to correct that or else they're going to say, 'Well, why do these dopes have that show? I can go out there and be just as good as them.'

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.