Speakers Quotes - Page 11

• We're very aggressive speakers. I remember when I was with one of my roommates in New York - and she's Portuguese, too - and we were in an Apple store talking about a computer in Portuguese. Some guy comes up to us and goes, "Hey, hey! Peace, peace! Stop arguing." It's not arguing. This is really just how we talk.

  Daniela Ruah

  Guy, Arguing, Remember

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

  Bernard Pivot

  Gender, Difficulty

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• I used to go to all the environmental conferences when I wasn't an invited speaker. I was just somebody in the back taking a lot of notes. It was when I was least visible that I came up with the most cool stuff. Now, because I don't get to be Clark Kent, I feel like my learning curve is slowing way down. I'm always afraid the conversation will move on and I'll be up at the front of the room saying last year's speech.

  Van Jones

  Moving, Environmental

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.

  Brian Eno

  Nice, Swimming, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Few people make a living as a public speaker but many people build it into their career. A career is like a suit of clothes: to look its best, it must be tailored and accessorized. So whatever career you choose, let's say it's social work - you can, for example, ask your boss - if you can give talks at housing project community centers about the social services available.

  Marty Nemko

  People, Giving, Community

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am not a public speaker and never will be.

  Heath Ledger

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• Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Inspired, Planets

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• I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

  Bill Lipinski

  Illinois, Needs, Mets

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• And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• I'm a motivational speaker.

  Young Jeezy

  Motivational Speakers

  "Jeezy: The Inspiration" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2006.

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• You don't always find yourself facing audiences who are smiling the whole time. This is natural. As a speaker it is vital to prepare well and believe in what you have to say. You can't please every person in every crowd, but your message can matter much more than if you were only aiming to entertain.

  Tara Moss

  Believe, Finding Yourself, Natural

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.

  Karl Mecklenburg

  Dream, Children, Kids

  Karl Mecklenburg (2009). “Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families”, p.40, Greenleaf Book Group

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• I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

  Jason Newsted

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• [John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text; a memoir, in fact.

  Tavis Smiley

  Rights, Facts, Wonderful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Would Be, Able, Courageous

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows or forces me to bring something that's supremely me onto the page. I used to think that the speaker of a poem was talking to someone else, to some ideal reader or listener, but now I think that speakers - poets - are talking to themselves. The poem allows you to pose questions that you have you ask of yourself knowing that they are unanswerable.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Thinking, Knowing, Talking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am a very emotional person. I basically think and feel in emotion, so writing is much easier for me than communicating by voice or by talking to somebody just because I can really get into the emotion more succinctly with writing. So I guess that's what makes me a better writer than speaker.

  Kelly Oxford

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

  Matt Preston

  Chef

  Source: www.popsugar.com.au

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• Leadership belongs to all of us. I'm a big believer in John Maxwell, a leadership speaker and author, who talks about the 360-degree leader. Before leading others, you have to learn to lead yourself. Wherever you work in an organization you have to learn to lead up, lead down, and lead side to side. Leadership belongs to all of us. You have to see yourself, and believe in yourself in the way that we are talking about here to give to those that you lead.

  Don Yaeger

  Believe, Giving, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• My music demands something of the listener, it is demanding music. I think that's a good thing. I'm not chiselling anything in stone or serving you any truths. Even to native Norwegian speakers, my lyrics are veiled. I'm asking questions.

  Einar Selvik

  Thinking, Good Things, Native

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated from the world, in which they keep falling short, and into language, where they fall even shorter. The narrators aggrandize their every plaint and lurid insight into verbal formations that betray their fatuity as speakers and even as hosts of their own bodies and souls.

  Gary Lutz

  Fall, People, Soul

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think people have a right to speak. And you have a right if you're on a college campus not to attend. You have a right to ask hard questions about the speaker if you disagree with him or her.

  Bernie Sanders

  College, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I've noticed that most authors who are pastors or speakers write books whose message is derived from a sermon series they did at their church. I guess my process is similar except that instead of a sermon, the genesis of the idea is found in the form of a three-minute song. And many of my songs have been inspired by the true stories and testimonies of people who've written to me from all over the world.

  Matthew West

  Song, Book, Writing

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• All music done, as I said, through low res mp3 and $5 earbuds and so I think as a producer or a band you want your music to sound good in that medium. Sometimes when I'm doing a mix I'll listen to it on my laptop, on the crappy speakers on my laptop. It lets me know what the tracks gonna sound like if someone else listens to it that way.

  Butch Vig

  Thinking, Track, Done

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Desire, Purpose, Way

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