“As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom; Sometimes it’s filled with feet.
– Robert Orben
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom; Sometimes it’s filled with feet.
– Robert Orben
“Be interesting, be enthusiastic … and don’t talk too much.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“Be interesting, be enthusiastic … and don’t talk too much.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
Gore Vidal
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Marcus T. Cicero
“We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is,
knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
-Ray Bradbury
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Chaffee
(… and a very effective speaking skill too!)
If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.
Dianna Booher