Presentation Skills Quotes

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. ~ Dale Ludwig

No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short ~ Stephen Keague

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. ~ Dorothy Sarnoff

The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation. ~ Allan Pease

Of those who say nothing, few are silent ~ Thomas Neill

A few mistakes do not a fiasco make. Professionals throw them off casually but file them away to reinvent as an endearing anecdote in later presentations. Make them part of the performance! Put them behind you and keep going whatever happens. ~ Ruth Bonetti

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language. ~ Cecilia Bartoli

When deciding between giving a longer or shorter presentation, pick shorter. 'I wish you had talked longer' are six words you'll seldom hear from audiences. ~ Sam Harrison

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. ~ Dale Ludwig

Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either. ~ Dale Ludwig

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. ~ Shiv Khera

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. ~ Dale Ludwig

In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience. ~ Ian Lamont

It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them. ~ Dale Ludwig

In presentations or speeches less really is more ~ Stephen Keague

Your slides should be a billboard not a document! ~ Lee Jackson

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

The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech ~ Stephen Keague

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way. ~ Marc Benioff

The most precious things in speech are pauses. ~ Ralph Richardson

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars. ~ Mark Twain

not only was i developing my ability to apply the theoretical facts we learn in class,but i was also honing my presentation skills ~ Augelicht

Ponder this quote by John MacArthur until it is written in the corridors of your mind: "We need to adjust our presentation of the gospel. We cannot dismiss the fact that God hates sin and punishes sinners with eternal torment. How can we begin a gospel presentation by telling people on their way to hell that God has a wonderful plan for their lives?" It is true that God has a wonderful plan for their lives - but it is that they would repent and trust the Savior, and receive the righteousness of Christ. ~ Ray Comfort

To render help is to have the skills needed ~ Sunday Adelaja

One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification have been developed by economists. One is the method of partial equilibrium analysis (or microeconomics), generally associated with the name of Alfred Marshall and the other is the method of aggregation (or macro-economics), associated with the name of John Maynard Keynes. ~ Kenneth E. Boulding

From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that had to be done,
I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me, and I could study it at my own pace and approach it the way I liked, I was pretty efficient at acquiring knowledge and skills. ~ Haruki Murakami

Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face. ~ Erving Goffman

No matter what your products it doesn't hurt to know how to sell. Improving your selling skills is certainly beneficial ~ Timi Nadela

Percy's ears turned as pink as Alex's jeans. "Anyway, maybe we've been looking at this all wrong. I've been tying to teach you sea skills. But the most important thing is to use whatever you've got to hand - your team, your wits, the enemy's own magical stuff."
"And there's no way to plan for that," I said.
"Exactly!" Percy said. "My work here is done!"
Annabeth frowned. "Percy, you're saying the best plan is no plan. As a child of Athena, I can't really endorse that. ~ Rick Riordan

The two skills of the warrior are compassion and insight. Compassion is easy - it arises spontaneously from an open heart. Insight or discernment requires more skill. We have to choose our battles. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. ~ Arabella Weir

I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them. ~ Atul Gawande

I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything, so I was what they call an escort. I would take people to the support groups every night, and I would have to sit sort of on the sidelines so I could take them back to hospice at the end of the meeting. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The way that we think is dependent upon our flowering formal and informal education. How we think affects our behavior. How we conduct ourselves in the unscripted interactions with our family, friends, and lovers alters our emotional being. Our emotional being funnels our thought processes. Our community modulates our actions and establishes standards for behavior, and our logical reasoning and moral reasoning skills evolve as we mature. The didactical association between education, thinking, behaving, communal relationships, and the ongoing process of making logical and moral decisions continues to shape unions and disunions of our transforming character. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. ~ Anita Roddick

Now it had felt Jonathon, but could not touch him since Jonathon had inherited some of this Granfathers pshycic skills and was able to keep mind closed to its attack. ~ David Denny

A man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for those are frequently born of necessity. He is not his talents, which are produced by heredity and by early environmental factors. He is not the sicknesses to which he may be predisposed, and he is not the environment that shapes him. A man contains all these things, but he is greater than their total. ~ Robert Sheckley

I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every player under the age of twelve play box lacrosse exclusively or at least a majority of the time. The number of touches of the ball and the ability to develop better stick skills in a game of box lacrosse, far surpasses what happens to young people on a 110 x 60 yard field. Learning how to pass and catch in traffic, understanding how to shoot, and developing a sense of physicality are all positive traits developed by the box game. ~ Bill Tierney

I feel that the All-Star game is more like a party because its made up of a lot of elements. However the core of All-Star is still the 48 minute-game and all the fans will pay all attention to the showcase of the players excellent skills. The result of the game is not much of a concern. ~ Yao Ming

I only take on hardened criminals," George said. "A woman on a rampage is way beyond my skills. ~ Anonymous

In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others
and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used. ~ David Fontana

Success comes to people with leadership skills, a sound vision, enthusiasm, and the willingness to put forth the effort to build an organization and find others who will do the same. ~ Mark Yarnell

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions. ~ Samuel Johnson

When I grow up, maybe I will be
the first one to circle the sea.
Or maybe I will just spend all my day
doing everything my way.
Maybe I will be in a world of my own
I just hope not alone.
I just know that whatever I do
I will never, ever forget about you. ~ Oliver Neubert

The enthusiasm to work hard and endless determination are the two great skills for success. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you. ~ Anonymous

When you feel great about you, personal qualities radiate that make you more attractive and compelling to others. ~ Susan C. Young

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age. ~ Alessandro Nivola

Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left! ~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

When moving from one home to another watch out for losing dear (expensive) things. This is when people will steal from you. ~ Clifford Cohen

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art ... Skill has nothing to do with technical proficiency ... I'm interested in people who rethink skill, who redefine or reimagine it: an engineer, say, who builds rockets from rocks. ~ Jerry Saltz

Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to me. I don't know what to say, to not look like a major dork or something. I am weird like that. Always were.
The dead – that's a whole other world we're talking about. They can't interfere with my everyday life, other than to annoy me. I can be myself around the dead. The dead are good. The living? Not so much. ~ Tia Artemis

What makes a good teacher today is what has always made a good teacher: command of a subject, a critical mind, a demanding nature, and an ability to inspire students to pursue knowledge for some end beyond mere financial rewards. A good teacher might be entertaining and funny, but shouldn't set out to be. A good teacher may have broad experience with and skills using technology, but the mere possession of such experience and skills doesn't make one a good teacher. ~ Peter K. Fallon

Knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy, dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. ~ Albert Einstein

What sets us apart from some of the other options available would definitely be our unique combination of skills and craftsmanship with being a well-managed business. We control the number of projects we are involved with so that our clients remain a top priority throughout the duration of their project. ~ Kris Kidd

Good preachers work hard with the text. They want to make the sermon as accurate as possible. They also want to make it as interesting as possible. They want to persuade, admonish, and exhort, yet nothing happens as a result of their skill. Nothing can happen - at least, nothing good. The Holy Spirit, who attends the preached Word, is the only one who moves people to changed lives and growth. The Word is where the power is. It is not in programs or human skills. We can preach this Word till we are blue in the face, but if the Holy Spirit does not work through the Word preached, noth-ing happens. ~ R.C. Sproul

There are so many ways to help, by either sharing your skills or expertise, joining our board of directors or advisory boards, and donating. Regardless of what or how you share with ISF, we recognize that we don't have all the answers, and that solutions lie not in commonality but in diversity. Welcoming a broad range of thinkers, creators, and doers is what makes this organization thrive. ~ Ian Somerhalder

Good reasoning isn't primarily about being loud and confident and good on your feet. Those are skills worth developing⁠ - as humans, we're built to respond to all of that⁠ - but those aren't the things that make people good reasoners. The right-wing Logic Brigades give people the impression that caring about logic means dogmatically applying a few simple principles to everything and ignoring the fine-grained contextual differences between superficially similar situations. That's exactly wrong. If you actually care about getting the arguments right, you need to slow the hell down and pay attention to the subtleties. ~ Ben Burgis

Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills. ~ Frank Pittman

Each one of us is endowed with specific sacred-skill. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita