Public Speaking Quotes - Page 5

• What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Depth, Propaganda

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• Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

  Eliot Spitzer

  Speak, Streets, Speaking In Public

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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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• In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Government, Voice

  George Washington (1839). “Life”, p.303

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• It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet.

  Drake

  Humble, Advice, Done

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

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Complaining, Speech

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

  Robert Morley

  Add

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• The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.

  Herman Herst, Jr.

  Speech, Dinner, Way

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• If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Giving, Speech, Way

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• An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

  William Hazlitt

  Doe, Orators, Commonplace

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”

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• A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, Orators, Ifs

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• If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Glowing, Going With The Flow, Want

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• Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Innovation, Stranger, Campus

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Feels, Comfortable

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• It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

  William Manchester

  Gleam, Macarthur, Shallow

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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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• 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 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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• I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other people's clothes and pretending to be somebody else, which is completely crazy choice of profession. So, I don't enjoy public speaking and I have every sympathy for anyone who has to do it and doesn't enjoy it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Crazy, Clothes, People

  "The King's Speech - Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

  Rene Redzepi

  Book, College, Catering

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

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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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• 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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• 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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