Objective Communication Quotes

“When you get up in front of a group of people, you make a contract with them; you promise them, “I am going to deliver value X.” Every once in a while, you have to say, “See, I remember; I am keeping my promise.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“You cannot cover every aspect of any intellectual topic. Selectivity is necessary on any project, whether you are writing a telegram or an encyclopedia.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“She let them give every argument they could think of for a whole hour. Since she had a good case, she refuted each objection;”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“I advise you, therefore, to expect your audience members to be skeptical of the very field of ideas, and not to condemn them for it.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“You must therefore show your audience, in some terms, why your talk or point advances their values.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“The first principle is that whether you are speaking or writing, you must give the audience a reason to care, to be interested in what you are saying.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“Where do you start in any presentation so that the base in reality is clear? What do you cover? What do you omit?”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“Where do you start in any presentation so that the base in reality is clear?”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“But does this type of individual know what “freedom” means?”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“I have often found that I do not really understand something clearly until I try to give a formal presentation of it to others.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“Therefore, when they disagree with one another, it is “I feel” versus “You feel”—which is one step away from “Aryan science” versus “Jewish science.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

“Communication is the act of making one’s thought known to others.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing