Impactful Communication Quotes

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Your voice can change the world.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

As long as I can reach somebody, then I feel like I'm doing my job.

People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything.

You don't make stupid internet videos or show people you have too much free time, you just say the right things and they'll be like, "Damn this dude's a real person and I can relate to that." That can make somebody's life, that can make somebody's day, that can be a line that they never forget.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they think specifically about what you're saying. And it's, in essence, trying to boil it down to something that's very understandable and meaningful.

You've got to bring the emotion, and you have to understand that you can't touch other people if you're not touched. You can't move other people if you're not moved. So if you're just giving some frickin talk you've memorized over and over again, you're going to have a flat affect. If you've just got a bunch of visuals on the screen that are leading your talk, hang up your shoes and get the hell out of there.

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can.

That's really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

One must always say every word with consideration, and should not say what one does not wish to happen. Those who do not understand the value of suggestion walk after their own fate with a whip in their hand, and those who understand its value and control their word and use it rightly, they are a bliss to themselves and a source of happiness to others.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.