Nancy Duarte Quotes

#1. Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

Nancy Duarte

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Love meant a lot, it meant everything, and it meant nothing.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#5. ... 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

#6. Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern.
- Clay to Elena

Kelley Armstrong

#7. Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

Nancy Duarte

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.

Nancy Duarte

#11. 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

#12. The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

Karl Marx

#13. 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

#14. Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

Nancy Duarte

#15. We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#16. The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Nancy Duarte

#17. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.

Nancy Duarte

#18. Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

Nancy Duarte

#19. Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

Nancy Duarte

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I am incensed that reality has the audacity to do some of the things it does when I CLEARLY don't want those things to happen.

Allie Brosh

#23. Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

Nancy Duarte

#24. So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

John Podesta