Presenting Quotes

• Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Play, Trying

  The New York Times, February 9, 1986.

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• You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

  Robert Collier

  Successful, Ideas, Achievement

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.184, Penguin

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• If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

  Harvey Diamond

  Want, Public Speaking, Achieve

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• The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teaching

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• If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

  Dianna Daniels Booher

  Change, Writing, Oratory

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• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  Dale Carnegie

  Skills, Wish, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.94, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Skills, Two

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• It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Communication, Skills Training

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.76, St. Martin's Press

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• Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

  Dionysius I of Syracuse

  Wisdom, Silence, Speech

  "Handy-book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Parenting, Speech

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• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Complaining, Speech

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• Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.

  Brian Tracy

  Care, Prospecting, Following

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.43, Jaico Publishing House

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Relationship, Money, Wish

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.

  Michelangelo Pistoletto

  Art, Museums, People

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• When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

  Leon Festinger

  Psychology, Trying, Cognitive Dissonance

  Leon Festinger (1962). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

  Nel Noddings

  Relationship, Education, Time

  Nel Noddings (1984). “Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

  Franz Boas

  Intelligent, Equality, Emotional

  Franz Boas (2014). “Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)”, p.75, Routledge

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• Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Problem, Attacking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2016

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• I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point of view, a point of view which stresses the importance of private markets, of individual freedom, and the distorting effect of governmental policy.

  Milton Friedman

  Stress, Believe, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

  Enrico Fermi

  Choices, Might, Sun

  Enrico Fermi (1965). “Note e memorie (Collected papers)”

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• We've tried to use some visual motifs [in Beauty and the Beast]. As far as the cinematography and the lensing and all that, we are presenting a different view into that world. It's a little sleeker, but we're keeping the gothic feel underneath it.

  Brian Wayne Peterson

  Views, Different, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• If you want to beat Donald Trump - then you need to be the candidate that is not the establishment in your thinking, in the way you're presenting yourself.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Thinking, Needs, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• He [Merlin] is slightly from another world and place, so it [challenge in bringing the role to life] is about having fun and presenting it in a new way. He's more of a politician, and slightly Machiavellian, but there's also a lovely relationship going on between Merlin and Arthur. There's so much to be had, really.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Fun, Lovely, World

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• The perspective that law enforcement is presenting seems to be a very narrow one that's focused very, very heavily on investigations of past crimes rather than on preventing future crimes. It's very important for policymakers to take that broader view because they're the ones who are trusted to look at the big picture.

  Matt Blaze

  Past, Views, Law

  Source: www.politico.com

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