Public Speaking Quotes
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Public Speaking Quotes & Sayings
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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
— Winston S. Churchill
Just keep in mind," Liaro said, "they're not going to remember the words. They'll remember how you made them feel. Make them feel something.
— Kameron Hurley
Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.
— Miya Yamanouchi
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
— Rene Redzepi
Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will.
— Todd Stocker
Every man is eloquent once in his life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.
— Nicholas Boothman
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
— George Bernard Shaw
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Public Speaking is very easy.
— Dan Quayle
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
— Kamala Harris
A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.
— Todd Stocker
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech
— Stephen Keague
"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "
— Kin Hubbard
I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.
— Jack Abramoff
Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.
— Richard Brookhiser
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."
— Robert Morley
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
— Dale Carnegie
Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.
— Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess Of Reading
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
— Kevin James
The speaker catches firelooking at their faces.
His words
jump down to stand
in listener's places. — Langston Hughes
Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.
— Dale Ludwig
My greatest fear is speaking in public.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.
— Harvey Diamond
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
— Tibor Fischer
With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
— Christopher Buckley
Good public speaking is based on good private thinking
— Scott Berkun
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
— Sara Sheridan
Oratory is the highest form of music
— Agona Apell
I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.
— John Cornyn
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
— William Hazlitt
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
— Jane Fonda
So often our power lies not in ourselves, but in how we help others find their own strength.
— Amy Lee Peine
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
— Eliot Spitzer
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
— Franklin P. Adams
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— Zadie Smith
It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet.
— Drake
€7,500, first-class, everything - and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
— Slavoj Zizek
Public speaking skills are an essential key to achieving career advancement and success.
— Robert Moment
In presentations or speeches less really is more
— Stephen Keague
Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation.
— Dale Ludwig
Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.
— Tony Robbins
Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies.
— Robert Moment
Say what you have to say, and then stop.
— Rudolf Flesch
Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.
— Kumail Nanjiani
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
— Jonathan Swift
Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.
— Dale Ludwig
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
— Dionysius I Of Syracuse
Be your own kind of brave.
— H. L. Balcomb
More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.
— Deborah Tannen
A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
— Finley Peter Dunne