What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Right. And our first job is to teach her to give a speech on the Grand Balcony in three days.” “That does not sound too difficult. Has she done much public speaking?” Amilia forced a smile. “A week ago she said the word no.
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way.
It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet.
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.
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.
More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.
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.
A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.
I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
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