“XL is dedicated to understanding shifting business dynamics and helping our clients thrive in increasingly complex and changing environments. 'The Future of the Company' platform will allow us to offer insights and commentary on these essential topics to a global and diverse audience and feature insights from XL experts.” HelpingUnderstandingCompanyAudienceEnvironmentOffersEssentialsComplexesInsightFeaturesExpertsThriveDedicatedPlatformsDiverseClientsTopicsShiftingCommentaryDynamicsChanging Environment Author:Mike McGavick
“Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.” LittlesReasonPassionUnderstandingRoomsAudienceTeacherMankindEffectsWillingHigherDegreesHighestReflectionAffectionFancyTouchingVulgarGrossEloquenceGeneralitiesStationaryAthenians Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.” ThinkingWorldPlayPainPoliticalSpiritNamesProcessUnderstandingAudienceSubjectsSeriousNormalSurvivalConnectionsBoxesTerrorismTheatreRationalPromotingAnti Terrorism Author:John Lahr
“As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience.” ImportantFeelingsGivenUnderstandingEmotionRolesAudiencePiecesSpecialParticularLogicImportant ThingsAtmosphereInterpretationPerformersComposerFeelings And EmotionsPianist Author:Rafal Blechacz
“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.” WayArtEnoughFeelingsRealityJoyDesireArtistUnderstandingPleasureTeachAudienceDemandDiscoveryTragedyTheaterDelightInsightLiberationTriumphAlienationSchooledInformativePrometheusChanging Reality Author:Bertolt Brecht
“At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.” CertainTurnsUnderstandingWorryAudienceImpossibleTwistsCatchingTwists And Turns Author:David Cronenberg
“Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the director and just listen to him or her talk about the film - what they're trying to say, what they want the audience to understand or believe, and a thousand other similar questions. The director has most likely been living with the film for years before a composer is attached, and so the director's inclinations, desires, and understanding of the film are paramount.” WantWritingTryingYearsBelieveFilmDesireUnderstandingAudienceThousandDirectorsNotesComposerInclinationSessionJust ListenParamount Author:John Keltonic
“There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.” DoeIdeasProblemGrowsUnderstandingSimpleTechnologyAudienceDesignIdentityDependsPeriodsApproachConceptsFocusedDrivenErasEvolveTime Periods Author:Ivan Chermayeff
“I want to use film to tell stories that need to be told to spark discussions that will lead to change. I really want to see a change in the mindset of youth, how they see themselves and how they value life. Young audiences will be able to see themselves in this film and older audiences will gain an understanding of what their kids are dealing with on a daily basis. Kids discuss what they see on TV, social media, film so I want to create content that they will discuss and will change the way they think.” ThinkingWayWantNeedsStoriesUseKidsAbleFilmYoungValuesSocialUnderstandingAudienceMediaYouthTvsGainsBasesSocial MediaMindsetDiscussionSparks Author:Jamie Hector
“In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.” WantWritingImportantBookUnderstandingOpinionAudienceSuccessfulMarketingBeing SuccessfulTargetComponentsTarget Audience Author:John Locke
“My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookDifferentUseCultureUnderstandingAudienceStudyNeededProjectsResearchToolsMethodStrategyAvailableResearchersQualitativeOral History Author:Patricia Leavy