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

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Complaining, Speech

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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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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Parenting, Speech

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Army, Fighting, Night

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• The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Class, People

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• I think that to me, films are personal affairs. It doesn't mean that I am against other people doing things differently, but I'm talking about what I can do. So I don't feel comfortable going to a new city or a certain class of which I don't have sufficient knowledge, doing research on that, and then writing a story about it I don't think I have the ability of presenting other people on screen in that way. It makes me uncomfortable. This doesn't mean that I only want to talk about myself. I want to talk about what I know.

  Tamer El Said

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Mean, Discovery

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• I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.

  Evan Davis

  Regret, Should Have, Perfection

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• Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Wall, People

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

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