It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.

When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.

A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.