Presentation Quotes

• Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional

  Carmine Gallo

  Memorable, Successful, Emotional

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• If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

  Mark Twain

  Two, Giving, Design

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• Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.

  Bill Walsh

  Offering, Enthusiasm, Interest

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.153, Penguin

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• People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a certain description. This, which can be believed or disbelieved is quite different from the actual entity (if any) which does answer the description. Thus the matter of belief is, in all cases, different in kind from the matter of sensation or presentation, and error is in no way analogous to hallucination. A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Errors, People

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). “Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  Dale Carnegie

  Skills, Wish, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.94, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

  Dionysius I of Syracuse

  Wisdom, Silence, Speech

  "Handy-book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.

  Tom Peters

  Ability

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• If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

  Dianna Daniels Booher

  Change, Writing, Oratory

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• Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

  Nancy Duarte

  Organization, Marketing, Tools

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• The more strikingly visual your presentation is, the more people will remember it. And more importantly, they will remember you.

  Paul Arden

  Remember You, Remembers You, People

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• Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Decision

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.38, Jaico Publishing House

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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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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Parenting, Speech

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• What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

  Learned Hand

  Determination, May, Safe

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.

  Edward Tufte

  School, Simple, Play

  "PowerPoint Is Evil" by Edward Tufte, www.wired.com. September 1, 2003.

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• It was a most rewarding experience! I learned and saw how with a few simple ideas and concepts the same presentation can go from being standard and ordinary to interesting and involving.

  Jeff Keane

  Simple, Ideas, Interesting

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• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Complaining, Speech

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• Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.

  Michelangelo Pistoletto

  Art, Museums, People

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• I think it’s more like a shirt that says, ‘I’m going to have to end this date early so I can go prepare my Power Point presentation

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Shirts, Ends

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?

  Paul Washer

  Men, Doe, Earth

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• Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Understanding, Today, Position

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 32, 1799.

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