Tom Wujec Quotes

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

I think any opportunity you can to employ some visual technique, go for it.

There's a certain visual grammar you've got to stick in. For example, if a character has just woken up, draw him in his pajamas with the bed a bit rumpled. Or if he's ill, draw little bottles with red crosses on that immediately communicate medicine, and a box of tissues.

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.

They can't just tell everybody else to ignore all the other meanings that it's accrued..

That night image had replaced the written word as the natural language of politics.

I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

Visuals are important, as listeners like to 'see' the song.

When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?