Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

People are always fighting for attention with things now because there's so much content. Actually, if you don't tell people stuff - you just keep your mouth shut - you don't have to whisper it, you just don't yell. Take the bullhorn off your mouth and it's a secret.

Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?

People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise.

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.