Leo Ornstein Quotes

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

I have no message.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Communication is important.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

You must be loud but you must also be understandable. There’s no point in being loud if you can’t be understood.

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.

There are various ways of delivering some kind of truth, so I try to find the style or the way that I find more effective.

You speak to be understood, right? And you're understood so you can be felt. And you're felt so you can get what you want.

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

I am not good at making people understand certain things.