quotes about Public Speaking
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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
-- Albert Ellis -
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better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
-- Claudius -
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More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.
-- Deborah Tannen -
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
-- Eliot Spitzer -
A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
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Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
-- Franklin P. Adams -
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.
-- Harvey Diamond -
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.
-- John MedinaSource : John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.78, Pear Press
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In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
-- Joseph Pulitzer -
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If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
-- Kin Hubbard -
"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "
-- Kin Hubbard -
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.
-- Patricia Briggs -
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
-- Rene Redzepi -
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Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."
-- Robert Morley -
Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.
-- Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading -
Good public speaking is based on good private thinking
-- Scott BerkunSource : Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.57, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
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I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.
-- Terry Bradshaw -
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
-- Tom Peters -
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.
-- William Manchester -
When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.
-- Jay RudermanSource : Source: abilitymagazine.com
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Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.
-- Richard Brookhiser -
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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
-- Andrew Lang -
Say what you have to say, and then stop.
-- Rudolf FleschSource : Rudolf Flesch (1949). “The Art of Readable Writing”
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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
-- George BancroftSource : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.417
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I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.
-- Kumail NanjianiSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.
-- Lee MaracleSource : Interview with Brecken Hancock, cwila.com.
