Message Reception Quotes

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes I think that what I'm writing now might not even have an impact for the next three or four generations. Sometimes I sit there and write, and I think, "It'll be two hundred years before they get what I'm writing about."

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down.

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.

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

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

It's not what you say, it's what people hear.

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

It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.

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

How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.