Communicating Effectively Quotes

Certainly part of being from a big family is that you have to shout to make yourself heard.

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

I can't afford to be quiet all the time. I learned that.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

I think a president has to be able to think like the people think.

The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. The moment people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

When you tell a story that you know is having an effect on the audience, that, for me, is the transforming thing.

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

Me personally, I'm always going to lead by example first. But there are moments where I need to use my voice and go up to a guy and get my message across.

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.

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

The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.