Speakers Quotes - Page 15

• I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Media, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, People, Done

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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• I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

  Young Jeezy

  Rapper, People, Shows

  "Status Ain’t Hood Interviews Young Jeezy". Interview with Tom Breihan, www.villagevoice.com. August 23, 2005.

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• I have some speakers up here, thank God, because last night I didn't have them and I was telling jokes and I had no idea which joke I was telling. So I told jokes twice. I even told that one twice.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, House, President

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• I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.

  Mooji

  Teaching, Ideas, Giving

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• Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

  Richard Jackson

  Heart, Silence, Lasts

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• Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

  Michael Rost

  Listening, Mind

  Michael Rost (2013). “Teaching and Researching: Listening”, p.3, Routledge

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• as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.

  John Allen Fraser

  Office, Information, Made

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.

  James Sharp

  Witty, Clever, Sorry

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• Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Empathy, Levels

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• We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Empathy, Adequate

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• As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

  Young Jeezy

  Rapper, Long, People

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• Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

  Dale Carnegie

  Born, Great Speakers

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• I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Thinking, Glasses

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• Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7% of scientists believe in God. That is right. And the reason they gave was that the scientists are "super smart". Unbelievable. Most of these absent-minded professors cannot find the toilet.

  James Traficant

  Religious, Smart, Believe

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• Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

  Sidney Lumet

  Surround Sound, Two, Secret

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• In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

  George Henry Lewes

  Speech, Sincere, Great Power

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say "congratulations.

  Stephen Colbert

  Zoos, Congratulations, Class

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• When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Confused, Work

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• The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through a microphone, amplifiers, transmission lines, radio transmitter, receiving set, and, finally, the loud speaker apparatus itself.

  Raymond Scott

  Mind, Receiving, Sound

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

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• By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.

  Damon Knight

  Wall, Glasses, Giving

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• Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and give you the most truthful and complete answer you can imagine. You will know the absolute truth of the statement as well as the thought process behind the answer. You will have no doubt as to the intellect of the speaker and meaning of the answer to this question....So you can see, as a politician, he has a lot to learn.

  Mario Cuomo

  Eye, Men, Giving

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• I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father [John Kenneth Galbraith]. The leading economists of the Austrian school- including von Hayek and von Haberler - returned for the occasion. And so my father took a moment to reflect on the economic triumphs of the Austrian Republic since the war, which, he said, "would not have been possible without the contribution of these men." They nodded - briefly - until it dawned on them what he meant. They'd all left the country in the 1930s.

  James K. Galbraith

  Country, War, Father

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• Better never begin than never make an end.

  George Herbert

  Laziness, Ends

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