James Humes Quotes

#1. While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.

Joe Lieberman

#2. Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

James Humes

#3. Oh, what a beautiful child in the arms of a handsome man. She'd never seen anything on earth more endearing... even attractive. Was there anything on earth more attractive?

Pepper D. Basham

#4. I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

James C. Humes

#5. To read is to empower,
To empower is to write,
To write is to influence,
To influence is to change,
To change is to live.

Jane Evershed

#6. 'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion and will continue in our mission to stir positive debate on these and other issues.

Dasha Zhukova

#7. The art of communication is the language of leadership.

James Humes

#8. ...any schmoozer can light a candle.

Che Elias

#9. We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

Origen

#10. Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

James Humes

#11. Being a little kinder, a little slower to anger, a little more loving makes my life better - day by day.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#12. Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

Moses

#13. Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances ... If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

James C. Humes

#14. One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

James Humes