Top 37 Duarte Quotes
#1. Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.
Steve Forbes
#2. ... superb presentations - start by establishing "what is: here's the status quo." Then, they "compare that to what could be," making "that gap as big as possible" - Quoting Nancy Duarte
Adam M. Grant
#3. Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound
#4. Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
Nancy Duarte
#5. Personally, I find the concept of a "final theory," or a "theory of everything," rather limiting. The fun of discovery will most likely last as long as the human race continues.
Francisco J. Duarte
#6. If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.
Nancy Duarte
#7. Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
Nancy Duarte
#8. The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
Nancy Duarte
#9. I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the puppeteer pulling the strings.
L. Duarte
#10. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.
Nancy Duarte
#11. Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today
Nancy Duarte
#12. Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.
Nancy Duarte
#13. The tricky thing about fear is: It wears a different mask every day.
L. Duarte
#14. Those are the little seed-producing flowers, and the long catkins, they only produce pollen, to fertilise them.' 'Do they, do they!' repeated Hermione, looking closely. 'From those little red bits, the nuts come; if they receive pollen from the long danglers.
D.H. Lawrence
#16. We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbeat against heartbeat.
We fit perfectly together.
L. Duarte
#17. Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.
Nancy Duarte
#18. To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
Nancy Duarte
#19. Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.
Saul Friedlander
#20. The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Nancy Duarte
#22. My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
Nancy Duarte
#23. I wasn't brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at sounding strong.
The truth is: I was just a lost girl. Someone who was clueless on how to get out of the hole she'd dug for herself.
I didn't want to be the way I was. I wanted to be normal.
L. Duarte
#24. Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
Sachin Tendulkar
#25. Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.
Nancy Duarte
#26. You're the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. Duarte
#27. And the biggest reward was reaping the kind of life I deserved.
Judy Duarte
#28. Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.
Nancy Duarte
#29. Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
Nancy Duarte
#30. Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
Nancy Duarte
#32. The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
Nancy Duarte
#33. I hated that he made me feel. But, mostly, I worried about the haze clouding my mind whenever he was around.
L. Duarte
#34. Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#35. The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.
Nancy Duarte
#36. And a weak person will find it easier to take what someone else has earned rather than risk working hard and achieving something on his own.
Judy Duarte
#37. I tried the plan of talking incessantly myself, so as to hide the fact I didn't hear anything they said, the result was nobody paid the slightest attention to my (doubtless brilliant) remarks ...
Susan Hale
