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• Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.

  Carmine Gallo

  Typical, Way, Worst

  Carmine Gallo (2010). “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.

  John Darnielle

  Wise, Artist, People

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• A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.

  Charles Lamb

  Brother, Book, Doe

  "Last Essays of Elia". Book by Charles Lamb, 1833.

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• One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

  William Winwood Reade

  Book, Men, Process

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• I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Art, Hate, Order

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• I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.

  Alan Alda

  Way, Use, Helping

  "World Science Festival: Brian Greene and Alan Alda Bring Science to the Masses". Interview with Clare Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 06, 2011.

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• In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.

  A. H. Almaas

  Book, Journey, Humanity

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• The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Kings, Powerful, Mean

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.225, Harvard University Press

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• Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender.

  Glenda Green

  Heart, Love Is, Expectations

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• The choice is yours: Enjoy a delicious meal of, say, veal fantarella with grilled vegetables. Or spend a quiet hour reading David Gregory's book. You may find an altogether different sort of hunger has been sated by the final page. Brilliant in its simplicity, fearless in its presentation of the truth, Dinner with a Perfect Stranger is one invitation you'll want to RSVP.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Book, Reading, Vegetables

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• I have read many, many of these first-time published efforts and often, even though some are absolutely at pro levels of production, and have very costly printing and presentation, they lack a purpose, they merely emulate successful comics that already exist... I can't stress this enough. Have something to say.

  Gail Simone

  Stress, Book, Successful

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• The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an accommodationist strategy in regards to the culture, and this has resulted in a public presentation of the Faith that is often nebulous or "dumbed down."

  Robert Barron

  Media, Ethos, Years

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

  Lawrence Bender

  Ideas, Saws, Firsts

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• PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.

  Clive Thompson

  Thinking, Opposites, Data

  Clive Thompson (2013). “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, p.56, Penguin

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• Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Motive, Accurate

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• The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Business, Work

  Wall Street Journal, 22 May 1995 See Peter 1

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• I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.

  Philip Kitcher

  Details, Would Be, Examination

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  "Soul Man: Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones". Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.

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• It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Communication, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes. They are one in the same. It's just a different presentation.

  Wesley Eisold

  Writing, Differences, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Tejano music was hard for us because I was a girl. My dad had a lot of problems while trying to set up shows for us or presentations because there are a lot of men who don't think that women can get the attention of the public. But ... wrong!

  Selena

  Girl, Dad, Thinking

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• There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than the fact that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this–that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do, that you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will abound all the more to the glory of grace. That is a very good test of gospel preaching. If my preaching and presentation of the gospel of salvation does not expose it to that misunderstanding, then it is not the gospel.

  Martyn

  Mean, Men, People

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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 creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  John Updike

  Self, Creative, Use

  "Writers on Themselves: Magic, Working Secrets" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 1986.

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• Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Judging, Facts, Painting

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1939). “The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci”

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