Message Impact Quotes

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

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

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.

There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.

Inside the noisy and chaotic modern information sphere, the message doesn't matter nearly as much as the messenger.

For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles.

I've gotten so many messages I could even get emotional thinking about it, but I've gotten so many messages from young kids all over the country that my story's resonated with them.

The last thing you want is for people not to care about what you have to say.

What data can tell you is if you have 10 messages, all of which you believe, it can tell you which messages are resonating and which aren't. And if you break it down even further, the truth of the matter is some messages resonate one place and other messages resonate another place.

Positive messages don’t work.