Elizabeth Warren Quotes

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.

What you say in defense of … ideas matters, and what people hear matters even more.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

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

I am not good at making people understand certain things.

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

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.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.

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

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

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

Speak to men according to their mental capacities, for if you speak all things to all men, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors.

It is not hard to get men to agree when the facts are known.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

I work on the assumption that in the crowded mass communication field today you have to get in and get out with your message as quickly and simply as possible. You must communicate the maximum with a single glance.

Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.