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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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• Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

  Marc Benioff

  Keys, Skills, People

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• We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method.

  Tommy Wonder

  Magic, Casualties, Should

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• Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.

  Erving Goffman

  Self, May, Faces

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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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• I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Eye, Thinking, Looks

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• If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

  Stockwell Day

  Sex, School, Law

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.

  Cat Cora

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Chef Cat Cora Dishes on Healthy Cooking". "Good Morning America" with Diane Henderiks, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Birthday, Sibling, War

  "A Conversation With Walter Dean Myers About Sunrise Over Fallujah". Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.

  Adolf Hitler

  Passion, Fate, Rocks

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

  Frederick Douglass

  Reading, Hands, Principles

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 31, 2015

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• One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Communication, Ideas

  John P. Kotter (2013). “John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do”, p.22, Harvard Business Press

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• I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Ideas, Personality

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• In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

  Orson Welles

  Two, Opinion, Praying

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• ...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Eras, Preoccupation

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• When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.

  Emma Stone

  Years, Parent, Hollywood

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

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• The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

  Freddie Mercury

  Appeals, Convince

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• Before I speak, I have something important to say.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 2001.

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• ...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

  Al Gore

  Opening Up, Hopeful, Dangerous

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• Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Teaching, Learning, Technology

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• I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

  Bob Woodward

  College, Names, Stories

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• A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

  Alwin Nikolais

  Dance, Cat, Innocent

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