quotes about Speakers
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He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.
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...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte -
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
-- Bernard Pivot -
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Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
-- David Herbert Donald -
I am not a public speaker and never will be.
-- Heath Ledger -
The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
-- James Altucher -
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Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
-- Jennifer LynchSource : "Director Jennifer Lynch Interview SURVEILLANCE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2009.
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If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.
-- John BercowSource : "The Saturday interview: John Bercow" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
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A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.
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The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verstandlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.
-- Jurgen HabermasSource : "Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy". Book by Werner Ulrich, 1983.
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Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
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Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.
-- Michael RostSource : Michael Rost (2013). “Teaching and Researching: Listening”, p.4, Routledge
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Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.
-- Michael RostSource : Michael Rost (2013). “Teaching and Researching: Listening”, p.3, Routledge
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I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
-- Neil Peart -
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it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
-- Nellie L. McClung -
An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.
-- Olivia -
The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.
-- Richard Armour -
The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.
-- Spiros Zodhiates -
Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.
-- Walter WangerinSource : Walter Wangerin (2013). “The Book of the Dun Cow”, p.22, Diversion Books
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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 PrestonSource : Source: www.popsugar.com.au
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if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.
-- Rosalie MaggioSource : Rosalie Maggio, The Women's Media Center (2015). “Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language”, p.33, Open Road Media
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The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
-- Wilson Follett