Miuccia Prada Quotes

If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.

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.

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

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'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.

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

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.

Action is eloquence

All the spending is an amplifier. If your message dos not resonate with enough people, spending on its own doesn’t maker s difference.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

We have all these ideas and visions, and they're able to come to life, and our voices are being heard, which is really amazing.

Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice.

I want to make a film that can reach as many as possible so I want to talk in a language which I can easily communicate with.

Local news taught me to take each moment as one of extreme importance - don't waste people's time. Give them solid information in a compelling fashion so they will remember it and use it in their lives.

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.