Presenting Quotes - Page 12

• I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Ideas, Worry

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• The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Liars, Should Have

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• Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

  Vern Law

  Funny, Teacher, Giving

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• In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wrath, People

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• If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion.

  Paul Washer

  Mean, Night, Church

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• The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

  Giordano Bruno

  Men, Light, Divine

  "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.

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• Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Wall, Details

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

  Le Corbusier

  Fighting, Revolution, States

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• Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

  Kathy Acker

  Women, Writing, Reality

  "Bodies of Work". Book by Kathy Acker, 1996.

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• I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.

  Michael Collins

  Distance, Rich Or Poor, Blue

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• When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Jobs, Air, Tables

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• A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

  Paloma Picasso

  Pieces, Way, Messages

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• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Focus

  FaceBook post by Sachin Tendulkar from Apr 22, 2014

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• Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Hands, Wings

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• So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Mystical Experiences, Civilization, Offering

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• If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.

  Jim Rohn

  Stronger, Truth Is, Enough

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 21, 2015

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• That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.21, Penguin

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• Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Perfection, Leader, Individuality

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• I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

  Sam Houston

  Rights, Advocating, Indian

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