“The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.” ShouldAudienceClearInternetConsensus Author:J. J. Abrams
“I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a professional economist, so I'm careful that my economics is as it should be. But I have long felt that there's no economic proposition that can't be stated in clear, accessible language. So I try to be right with my fellow economists, but I try to have an audience of any interested, intelligent person.” WantShouldWritingTryingMindPersonsLongMadeTwoLanguageFeltAudienceClearEconomicEconomicsIntelligentFellowsCarefulTwo ThingsEconomistPropositionsIntelligent Person Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.” IfsWayCultureInterestingAudienceIssuesClearCommitmentLengthObscure Author:Lawrence Lessig
“I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.” FirstsMeanGuyTalkingAudienceClearJokesSkinsHeyInsultRelaxBroadsSpiritedExaggeratingMean Spirited Author:Don Rickles
“Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWritingAudienceClearUniversalNonsenseElegantTransparent Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere lately about communicating science to the public, and it's clear that most scientists just don't get it. They can't be bothered to talk to real people. Nobody will care about your issues if the price they have to pay is listening to a long lecture from Morton the science bug.” PeopleIfsLongHas BeensRealCarePayAudienceIssuesClearStupidListeningScientistBlameCommunicateDebateLazyFascinatingShallowBugsLecturesBothered Author:Mark Powell
“The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.” FactsAudienceClearFrontsStandingProtestSnicket Author:Daniel Handler
“When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.” MindChildrenBookWould BeAudienceClearAdultsTeenagerMarley Author:John Grogan
“Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of what this guy looked like - and even more so, what he looked like as Clark Kent and as Superman. You have this whole vast audience of people who would be acutely aware of any deviation whatsoever and probably holding you to a slightly higher standard as a result.” PeopleIdeasRealStatesWholeWould BeGuyUnitedResultsUnited StatesAudienceClearHigherStandardsThis GuyDeviationHigher StandardsKent Author:Ben Affleck
“If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.” IfsStillsIdeasSoundAudienceClearGood Movie Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.” IfsGivingTryingWellsMaySelfMatterStoriesHandsSufferingPayExistenceAttentionAudienceClearCapacityTalesMiserablePay AttentionOfficialsTreatmentUnjustTelling StoriesReceptiveAntagonist Author:Joseph Brodsky
“The important thing is to be able to understand anyone who has something useful to say. - There is a general moral here. Be very careful and very clear about what you say. But do not be dogmatic about your own language. Be prepared to express any careful thought in the language your audience will understand. And be prepared to learn from someone who talks a language with which you are not familiar.” ImportantAbleLanguageMoralAudienceClearImportant ThingsPreparedCarefulFamiliarBe PreparedDogmatic Book:An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition Source: An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition