Visual Aids Quotes

I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

I'm a presenter.

My parents wouldn't let me shave it earlier, so I made a PowerPoint presentation to convince them. I strategically put pictures of bald women in there.

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken.

I learned English from watching American movies and American series. And you'd watch the movie the first time and not understand anything. Then you'd watch it again, and you'd start understanding more and more, and that's how I learned English.

I'm most comfortable with my computer. Yes, I have an iPhone, but I've reached that point now where to read e-mails on my phone, I need my reading glasses. I'm most comfortable with the big-screen computer.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

Anybody can tell you what they think. But if you can illustrate what you think, you have a better chance of persuading people.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.

I love presentations more than fashion shows. I love speaking to people and walking them through the collection.

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.

I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

Vision isn't a template in PowerPoint.

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

If you want to add visuals to your blog posts, presentations or whatever it is, and you're as bad at drawing as I am, I think tracing photos is a good place to start.