Presentation: Quotes & Insights

Presentation: Quotes & Insights
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Enjoy and repeat (with accreditation) these quotes and insights on communication.


Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill


If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
Doug Larson


He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)


We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774


A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)


Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), Nemean Odes


Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)


No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961)


I understand a fury in your words,But not the words.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 4 scene 2


Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)


Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn (1644 - 1718)


Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)


If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Benjamin Franklin


Remember 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 Franklin


Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato


Most speakers are afraid of silence. It is so powerful.
Peter Urs Bender author, Secrets of Power Presentations


When you deliver your speech, the only person who hears every word is you.
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