Public Speaking Quotes - Page 5

• The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

  George Bancroft

  Critics, Wiser, Wisest

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.417

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• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Success, Fear

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• My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

  Lee Maracle

  Art, Slides, Form

  Interview with Brecken Hancock, cwila.com.

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• The smaller trips are useful in between the big trips: they help me gain new skills and experiences, they solve a perpetual case of cabin fever, and they are accommodating to an ambitious public speaking schedule and to some private guiding.

  Andrew Skurka

  Skills, Ambitious, Cabins

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

  Jay Ruderman

  Hands, Disability, Neighbor

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I think everyone's afraid of public speaking. There have been times where I've come out of my own show and been like, 'Oh, God, what am I doing?' . . . You have to remind yourself that 'OK, I'm kind of a badass. I can handle it.'

  Chelsea Handler

  Badass, Thinking, Doing You

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• You cannot be afraid to present yourself. And sometimes that takes practice. If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable, you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

  Hillary Clinton

  Helping, Sometimes, Close Friends

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• I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

  Kevin James

  College, Class, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.

  David McCullough

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.

  Alice Sebold

  Book, Done, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Madison

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• With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

  Laurie Helgoe

  Thinking, Body, Faces

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Through my newspaper comic strip, public speaking, and filmmaking, I try to tell as many people as possible, of all ages and from all walks of life, that we are destroying the ocean at such an alarming rate that we can't wait for a systematic solution. We can't wait for our political leadership to warm up to the idea, and we can't wait for the free market to find alternatives. We must act as individuals, now.

  Jim Toomey

  Ocean, Ideas, People

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• Believe it or not, the number one fear in America remains public speaking. And, in some ways, I think that is a real shame because we are so blessed to live in a country where we are able to express ourselves, so we should want to do that.

  Dana Perino

  Country, Real, Believe

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's a sick thing, right: people are afraid of public speaking. I do public speaking, except my public speaking involves the audience only having one type of emotion and one type of reaction. If they have anything other than laughter, it's a failure. That's an absurd thing for a human to try to seek. The main thing to realize is that whatever I say, it's my truth and I believe in it, and if I don't get a laugh off that, then it's not working.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Laughter, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could act. I found that being on stage, I felt, "This is home." I felt an immediate right thing, and the exchange between the audience and the actors on stage was so fulfilling. I just went, "That is the conversation I want to have."

  Holly Hunter

  Home, People, Stage Fright

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"

  Annie Lennox

  Shoes, Matter, Sometimes

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Justice, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Jobs, School, Sweat

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• I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

  Dani Shapiro

  Found, Bigger

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.

  Barry Humphries

  Thinking, People, Comedian

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• I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Enjoy

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• Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.

  David D. Burns

  Powerful, Recovery, Worry

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• Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

  Robert Morley

  Add

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• Every man is eloquent once in his life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Eloquent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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