Eric Dezenhall quotes

“People mistake their love of the technology for it being a solution. Social media is the problem, not the solution, in crisis management. It's a problem if you use it to communicate in areas where you're dealing with incredibly intense emotions and very deep conflicts.”
-- Eric Dezenhall

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“People in my industry [PR] would like people to believe we have ways to control social media. But that's one of the great swindles.”
-- Eric Dezenhall

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“The PR industry loves the concept that if you just apologize, the problem goes away. The concept of apology is known in the Judeo-Christian sense: You apologize, but then you suffer. The problem is nobody wants the suffering. Everybody wants drive-through redemption.”
-- Eric Dezenhall

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“One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with egos, and with egos the answer to everything is "more me." Sometimes the situation calls for less you.”
-- Eric Dezenhall

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“Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.”
-- Eric Dezenhall

Source : "How to Survive a Scandal". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 10, 2014.

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“The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.”
-- Eric Dezenhall

Source : "How to Survive a Scandal". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 10, 2014.

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“God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!”

“Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.”

Source : "Jackson Told To Apologize for "Anti-Semitic Rant" by wenn.com, November 25, 2005.

“Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.”

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.”

“Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.”

“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.”

“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”

“My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.”

“The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.”

“Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.