One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
Lyndon B. JohnsonTransforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.
Robert GreeneCommunication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
Brian TracyExample is leadership.
Albert SchweitzerWhen it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
DrakeThat sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.
Charles DickensWhen angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas JeffersonA man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin DisraeliThe trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawA person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
Wayne DyerI was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.
Kevin GatesWhen Caroline Kennedy managed to say ‚you know‘ more than 200 times in an interview with the New York ‚Daily News,‘ and on 130 occasions while talking to ‚The New York Times‘ during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.
Christopher HitchensWhen I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
Bob UeckerYou can disagree without being disagreeable.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
Colin PowellListen with your eyes for feelings.
Stephen CoveyA master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.
Robert GreeneI have been – I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.
Noam ChomskyRemember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin FranklinSo when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.
Greta ThunbergI’m not very articulate.
David BowieIn retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!
David ByrneExtemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
Abraham LincolnThe most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.
Kevin HartRespond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao TzuOnly the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale CarnegieNo one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
Paulo CoelhoA man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhen people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayIf one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar WildeYou know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher HitchensYou can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale CarnegieThere are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise PascalThe only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale CarnegieIn the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. NixonI could never give relationship advice to anybody!
RihannaReacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
Ruth Bader GinsburgConflict cannot survive without your participation.
Wayne DyerIt usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark TwainTalkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Thomas SowellIt is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich NietzscheSome years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI don’t do meetings.
Karl LagerfeldBefore I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
Ronald ReaganEventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
Kendrick LamarIn the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen CoveyIn making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
AristotleOne of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you’re talking about.
Madeleine AlbrightI thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.
Jane GoodallTake advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim RohnA yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.
Winston ChurchillI really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.
Madeleine AlbrightI have learned to interface – what I think would be the contemporary term – with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
BonoI’ve been known to preach.
Kevin HartNo one wants advice – only corroboration.
John SteinbeckResist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.
Joyce MeyerReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis BaconI don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
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