Public Speaking Quotes

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

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.

More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

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.

A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

Say what you have to say, and then stop.

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.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

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.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

Public Speaking is very easy.

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.