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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
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Ralph Archbold(American speaker, entertainer, performer, Portrays Ben Franklin) |
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| What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
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Jim Beggs |
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| It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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Jack Benny(1894-1974, American comedian) |
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| I didn't say the things I said.
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Yogi Berra(1925-, American baseball player) |
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| I don't care how much a person talks if they only say it in a few words.
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Josh Billings(1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer) |
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| If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
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Dianna Booher(American author, speaker, trainer, consultant) |
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| A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.
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Van Wyck Brooks |
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| A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton(1874-1936, British author) |
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| If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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Dale Carnegie(1888-1955, American trainer, author, How to Win Friends and Influence People) |
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| Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Dale Carnegie(1888-1955, American trainer, author, How to Win Friends and Influence People) |
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| Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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Dale Carnegie(1888-1955, American trainer, author, How to Win Friends and Influence People) |
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| Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Cato The Elder(BC 234-149, Roman statesman, orator) |
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| One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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William Ellery Channing(1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author) |
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| Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield(1694-1773, British statesman, author) |
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| He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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Charles Churchill(1731-1764, British poet, satirist) |
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| If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.
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Winston Churchill(1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
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Winston Churchill(1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down.
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Winston Churchill(1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
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Marcus T. Cicero(c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician) |
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| Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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Marcus T. Cicero(c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician) |
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| Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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Marcus T. Cicero(c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician) |
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| Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
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Claudius(10 BC-AD 54, Roman emperor) |
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| We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
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Sir Edward Coke(1552-1634, British jurist) |
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| The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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Benjamin Disraeli(1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Epictetus(50-138, Phrygian philosopher) |
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| All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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| Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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| He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat) |
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| You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
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John Ford(c.1586-c.1640, British playwright) |
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| Half wits talk much, but say little.
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Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat) |
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| Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
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Herbert Gardner |
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| I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe(1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe(1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Baltasar Gracian(1601-1658, Spanish philosopher, writer) |
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| He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
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Henry Gratton |
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| I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
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Mark Victor Hansen(American motivational speaker, author) |
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| We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
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William Hazlitt(1778-1830, British essayist) |
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| Better never begin than never make an end.
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George Herbert(1593-1632, British metaphysical poet) |
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| Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
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Cullen Hightower |
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| Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
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Homer(c. 850 -? BC, Greek epic poet) |
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| Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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Horace(BC 65-8, Italian poet) |
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| Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
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James Humes(American lawyer, speaker, author) |
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| I don't like jokes in speeches; I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
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James Humes(American lawyer, speaker, author) |
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| Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
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James Humes(American lawyer, speaker, author) |
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| To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Ben Jonson(1573-1637, British dramatist, poet) |
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| A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld(1613-1680, French classical writer) |
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| If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld(1613-1680, French classical writer) |
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| Passions are the only orators to always convince us.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld(1613-1680, French classical writer) |
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| The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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Alphonse De Lamartine(1790-1869, French poet, statesman, historian) |
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