Presentation Quotes - Page 11

• The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

  Voltaire

  Boredom, Secret, Brevity

  SAMUEL JOHNSON

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• Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

  Susan Cain

  Self, Should

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  School, Self, People

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• Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Wedding, Past

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

  Rick Riordan

  Long, Lectures, Hours

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• Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past weekend, Al Gore's movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' earned more per screen than any film in the country. ... I dare say Gore's movie is the highest grossing PowerPoint presentation in history. ... Global warming: Can we live with it? ... It is time we did something, namely resign ourselves to doing nothing [on screen: Follow Congress' Lead]. ... For instance, when sea levels rise, we'll just build levees [on screen: Worked for New Orleans]

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Weekend, Past

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• A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Doe, Favour

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.288

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• Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

  Robert Breault

  Home, Purpose, Assuming

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• When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Mean, Heart

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt (2012). “The Power of Focus Tenth Anniversary Edition: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Confidence and Certainty”, p.206, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

  Douglas Booth

  Age, Sometimes, Obsessed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

  Kevin Plank

  Team, School, Guy

  "A $10 Business". "I Am American Business" Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

  Garth Stein

  Moving, Interpretation, Difficult

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Presentation, not reference.

  Ezra Pound

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• There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.

  Alice Bailey

  Expression, Church, Restoration

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• I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

  Brie Larson

  Cry, Should, Type

  "Brie Larson Interview UNITED STATES OF TARA and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 23, 2010.

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• There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

  Hari Kunzru

  Flower, Book, Hands

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• You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

  Helmut Jahn

  People, Chinese, Farce

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• My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

  William Hung

  Silly, Skills, Dancing

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• The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Play, Historical, Doubt

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• If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

  Vera Brittain

  Character, Interesting, People

  Vera Brittain (1948). “On being an author”

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• Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

  Dave Sitek

  Song, Teacher, Passion

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• Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

  John Major

  Thinking, Distinction, Wells

  "Former PM John Major: 'British don't turn tail' from terror". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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• Today we can see many different forms of Buddhism, such as Zen and Theravada Buddhism. All these different aspects are practices of Buddha's teachings, and all are equally precious; they are just different presentations.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Teaching, Buddhism, Practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.9, Tharpa Publications US

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• I am still working on patter and presentation.

  Paul Daniels

  Stills

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• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  Warwick Davis

  Self, Anxiety, Size

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