Max Scherzer Quotes

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

My delivery is something I always worked on.

When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

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.

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

I hate speeches.

I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they'll still listen.

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.

Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.