Presenting Quotes

• Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Play, Trying

  The New York Times, February 9, 1986.

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• You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

  Robert Collier

  Successful, Ideas, Achievement

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.184, Penguin

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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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teaching

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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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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Parenting, Speech

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

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Complaining, Speech

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Skills, Two

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• Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.

  Brian Tracy

  Care, Prospecting, Following

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.43, Jaico Publishing 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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• I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Relationship, Money, Wish

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

  Leon Festinger

  Psychology, Trying, Cognitive Dissonance

  Leon Festinger (1962). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

  Franz Boas

  Intelligent, Equality, Emotional

  Franz Boas (2014). “Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)”, p.75, Routledge

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• I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

  Nel Noddings

  Relationship, Education, Time

  Nel Noddings (1984). “Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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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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• Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Problem, Attacking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2016

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• I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

  David Oyelowo

  Opportunity, Veins, Actors

  Source: variety.com

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• The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible.

  Lee Gutkind

  Real, Ideas, Creative Nonfiction

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• Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Way

  "Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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• People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call portrays the realities of hierarchical relationships and rivalries beautifully, and how people respond when under pressure. Gandhi and Long Walk to Freedom both have the virtue of presenting larger-than-life figures in a more realistic way, showing their flaws and contradictions - their humanity - in a way that is very helpful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Reality, Long Walks, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.

  Nagwa Fouad

  Careers, Want, Artistic

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