Audience Quotes

“The trick of any good lie is just finding an audience who wants to believe it.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“People who are actually "cancelled" don't get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets... . The term "cancel culture" comes from entitlement—as though the person complaining has the right to a large, captive audience, & one is a victim if people choose to tune them out. Odds are you're not actually cancelled, you're just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked.
― Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”
― Emily J.M. Knox, Foundations of Intellectual Freedom

“You might be asking yourself, "Jarod, why did you write something that maybe one person is going to read?" The answer is easy: Because that gives me a larger audience than The Washington Post.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.”
― Amílcar Cabral, Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts

“Writing is a way of making people love me, which for me means ceasing to love.”
― Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost

“Art shouldn't be necessarily done for an audience. Sometimes creating for yourself can be equally rewarding.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Creativity helps us fulfil our purposes in this life.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Draw, dance, invent, plan, just do anything to stimulate your imagination.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Seek people with whom you can either create or share your creation.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Being creative, in any form, gives magical powers to an individual. One transforms from being just a person to being a creator.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“There is a parallel relationship between being creative and being intelligent.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Creativity enhances all senses. But the best part is that one gets to tap into their sixth sense as well.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Creativity doesn't require competition. Do it for you or for a good cause.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Don't you have an audience? Are you upset? Stop nonsense like emotional collapse, be your own audience! Do not leave your progress in your life to the discretion and help of others, move forward in any situation!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When Bob Hope tells a joke, his audience enjoys it far more than if it were being told by a comedian of lesser stature, not simply because Hope tells a joke exceedingly well but because his audience expects him to be funny, wants him to be funny and is rather flattered that he is being funny for them.”
― Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook

“I always have one major question…what do you want your audience to feel? Do you want to scare the shit out of them? Squirm in their seat? Feel beautiful? And how they answer that question gives me cues to work on. I translate their words into music.”
― Angelo Badalamenti

“The goal is that we need not to have a large audience to make a difference.
If you have a pen, use it to contribute towards the betterment of your society.
If you have a voice, speak your way through making a positive change in your environment.
If you have connections, use them to make a positive difference.
If you only have your family or friends, relay your message of change to them.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Give your audience a change to experience the content first before you ask them to like, share and subscribe.”
― Loren Weisman

“I can't tell you how many times I wrote something thinking it expressed one idea, only to find people saw something else in it.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“Ultimately, the meaning of the work is not determined by the artist but by the audience.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“Finding an audience is synonymous with finding yourself. When the artist discovers their audience, they, in turn, discover new dimensions of their own identity.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“The artist doesn't have to concern themselves with posterity because, ultimately, the audience will decide. Our only option is to do the best we can here and now.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“To reach any desirable audience, one must almost always run a gauntlet of virulent complainers.”
― George Hammond

“We live in an era where good design is available everywhere. Design that can attract and lead to a purchase, a sales call, a following, a subscription… If you have good design everywhere, what makes you stand out as an individual? What in your branding turns that simple scroll into a yes, yes, yes! I am in; I resonate.”
― Keva Epale, Intentional Branding: 10 steps to Create your Space: For creatives and entrepreneurs.

“If you continue to do your job with great seriousness and discipline without complaining about not having a single audience, one day you will have a large audience!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No one is buying what you're selling”
― Daniel Taotua

“Without the hook, which captures and holds the interest of the audience, your story is irrelevant.​”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“The obvious danger for most corporate storytellers is that they see themselves as needing to cast spells of persuasion and enchantment with every phrase.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“A story unfolds over time and often involves characters and events. In the corporate context, they often serve the aim to 'inCITE': connect, inspire, teach, or express.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Imagine a room of a hundred people huddled around a control panel, doing everything in their power to capture the attention of billions of people at a time. The audience thought it was fiction. But no, it is reality.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot