Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.
When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.
My message is strong and my belief is strong, in the fact that we can still be provocative and have fun and just get informed.
The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you think, that which makes you ponder.
To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.
The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'
You try to go with something that's familiar to people and that way they can jump on board with what you're trying to do basically. I only mimic people that really have like interesting voices because it's really hard to mimic like someone who just talks regularly like me like there's nothing fun about that.
People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!
Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.
