Quotes About Showmanship

#1. Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

Dale Carnegie

#2. Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup.

Seth MacFarlane

#3. My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

Richard M. Nixon

#4. Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

Adam Lambert

#5. During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

Muhammad Ali

#6. I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

W.G. Sebald

#7. Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a performer stand out

Nicholas Sparks

#8. My showmanship only comes out when I hold the violin - with Lady Tin-Yin in my arms, I don't care who watches. A peace comes over me, something I call my violin calm.

Stacey Lee

#9. Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

Vince Neil

#10. We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

Mario Cuomo

#11. The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Roman Polanski

#12. Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#14. Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.

James Beard

#15. I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Dwayne Johnson

#16. Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

Neil Postman

#17. Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

Rick Warren

#18. I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#19. The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

Harry Houdini

#20. In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

Nirmala Srivastava

#21. Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

David Blaine

#22. In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.

Najib Razak

#23. Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

Lukas Foss

#24. I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.

Tommy Lee

#25. Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Leonard Bernstein

#26. The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.

Douglas Brinkley

#27. Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

Ann Patchett

#28. After watching the house for a few days, she had concluded that the magician lived alone, but you never knew if someone had a secret lover stashed away. Or a very loud pet. That time with the peacock, for instance. Noisy birds, peacocks.

Yoon Ha Lee

#29. As the Dark Lord spoke when he saw the Archangel Michael descending upon him: We are in some serious shit.

C.T. Phipps

#30. I never go looking for child pornography, but I mean, if somebody sends me an email with some pictures, I'm not going to turn around and report them.

Zach Braff

#31. I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

David Johansen

#32. Misery, after all, loves company.

Bella Forrest

#33. There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#34. When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

Emma Lazarus