Quotes About Audience

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

When the poet or the performer composes or recites he is deeply moved, and indeed possessed (not only by the god but also) by the message; for example, by the scenes he describes. And the work, rather than merely his emotional state, induces similar emotions in his audience.

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

If you only take away one thing from this book, let it be this: Focus on creating well-written content about topics that are interesting to your audience, and you will be rewarded with more traffic to your website, enhanced brand recognition, and a loyal customer base. If you're ever in doubt, come back to this essential law, and you will be most of the way to creating quality content.

It starts by identifying your brand voice. Ask yourself these questions. What's your primary message? What tone of voice do you use? What type of language do you use? How do you want to speak to your audience? How do you want clients to feel when they communicate with you?

I watch him up on the screen as I hold his hand in the audience, and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it? And then I'm thinking - is it so impossible to imagine or believe? - that a man and a woman can find happiness together for a little while, which, after all, is all that we have. All anyone has. I think it can happen.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

They loved him. He was more handsome in front of a crowd; his limp, less apparent; his voice, warm and authoritative. It was as if all these years Sam had been waiting for an audience.

but I'm not sure I'm the intended audience.

God writes comedy but sometimes has a slow audience.

The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can overcome obstacles-preferably of his own making-in order to triumph. A hero without flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe, which, after all, is based on conflict and opposition, the irresistible force meeting the unmovable object.

A hero without a flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe, which, after all, is based on conflict and opposition, the irresistible force meeting the unmovable object.

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

If you take a character and you call him a frog … you immediately give the audience a handle. You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing. It's a difference of sort of warmth and cool.

We know that those things to which we have an emotional connection stick with us better than those for which we have none. Dramatization is a way to get your intellectual ideas across to your audience emotionally.

A good general rule around communication is to include as few people as necessary in synchronous communication (like meetings), and to go for a broader audience in asynchronous communication (like email).

There's only two types of people in the world: the ones that entertain, and the ones that observe.

Which is to say, I pictured my aunt and now Caroline and then thought of them reading the post, and suddenly I did not want to finish it or publish it, which is why most professional bloggers spend most of their professional lives trying to avoid having that thought, or picturing those people, or having those people in their lives in the first place

Rhetoric is the performing artist's toolbox, the lore of "playing an audience," a set of techniques and skills, practiced for many centuries, that can be drawn from to produce specific results. That