“There's no such thing as a passive audience.”
“Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.”
“But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.”
“This tired abstract anger; inarticulate passive opposition; always the same thing in dublin”
“I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.”
“The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech”