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Letter "S" » speaking
«There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience»
Author: Alexander Gregg
| Keywords:
aim, audience, First to, get into, in public, lastly, public, public speaking, speaking, subject, subjecting
«Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding»
«Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure»
Author: Henri Nouwen
| Keywords:
closeness, cure, distance, heals, listening, long distance, no longer, somewhere, speaking
«There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking»
«Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking»
«The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.»
Author: St. Jerome
| About:
Body,
Love
| Keywords:
confess, mirror, secrets, Secrets of, speaking, The Face, The Mirror
«Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.»
«That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.»
«Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
dilute, diluted, diluting, public speaking, speaking
«There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
flatteries, flattery, guarding, letting, offend, speaking
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