Stefano Gabbana Quotes

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.

We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.

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

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really counts.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.