Edward Tufte Quotes

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

Maybe the first secret is, 'Don't bore people.'

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

Funny is the world I live in. You're funny, I'm interested. You're not funny, I'm not interested.

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

You'd better have something good to say if you've got a roomful of people who've paid to see you.

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they're leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they're being entertained.

If you have the same guys at the top of the card all the time, people get bored of it. They don't want to see the same guys wrestling over and over again.

You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

Cinema which is well-made, for any kind of audience, is worthy of being watched by just about anybody who would like to watch a good story being told.

Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

If something is making us bored, we should probably keep it shorter.

No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

Down with boredom. It has to go.

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.

Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.