Substance Over Style Quotes

When it comes down to, it's not about the form, it's about the content.

The NBA tries to be about flash. But real fans recognize the guy who makes things happen.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.

The artists with lyrical content and who say something seem to outlast the fad rappers - I always noticed that.

I want to be taken seriously: I can cook, I do have qualifications, OK, I do make mistakes, but I want to show that on camera. I'm not perfect. I'm someone who works hard, who is serious about what they're doing. It's substance over style.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.

Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.

Conservatives look to deeds. They're not bought off by rhetoric.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

Never be impressed with charisma. Look for character.

Style without content is bad style.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Leadership is more doing than dash.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.