Public Speaking Quotes - Page 2

• Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  Meaningful, Listening, Oratory

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• I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Fundamentals

  "Ghost Town - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

  Dana Perino

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

  Ron Paul

  Worry, Understanding, Hearing

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• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Trouble, Levity

  "Answers to Nine Questions". Interview with Clarence Rook, 1895.

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• It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

  Napoleon Hill

  Teaching, Lasting Impressions, Tone

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• Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, People, Trouble

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

  Jake Roberts

  Power, Men, Listening

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• Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

  Claudius

  Motivational, Self Improvement, Knows

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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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• Know what you're talking about.

  George H. W. Bush

  Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• To be a person is to have a story to tell.

  Isak Dinesen

  Stories, Storytelling, Persons

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• There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mediocrity, Painting, Certain

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• Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

  John Medina

  Winning, Battle, Firsts

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.78, Pear Press

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• "Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "

  Kin Hubbard

  Giving, Let It Go, Demonstration

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• Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.149

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• A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

  Plato

  Wise, Plato, Men

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• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

  Gore Vidal

  Sarcastic, Book, Writing

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010

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• My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

  Boris Johnson

  Skills, Style, Moments

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

  Evan Esar

  Art, Communication, Vocabulary

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• Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

  Robert Orben

  Wisdom, Feet, Mouths

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.146, Main Street Books

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• Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears

  Gerald C. Meyers

  Motivational, Night, Self Improvement

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• All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

  Lou Holtz

  Hands, Desire, Needs

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• Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.

  Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading

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