Powerpoint Slides Quotes

#1. Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Herbert Simon

#2. The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides ... It's the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you're writing, because the teacher won't like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

Seth Godin

#3. If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

Lara Stone

#4. As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

Henry Petroski

#5. Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'

David Johansen

#6. I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

Elliot Richardson

#7. As well chain the eagle's wing to make it mount, as doubt in order to increase our grace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.

Epicurus

#9. There with the wood-fire, which was beginning to burn low, rising and falling upon him in the dark room, he sat with his legs thrust out to warm, drinking the hot wine down to the lees, with a monstrous shadow imitating him on the wall and ceiling.

Charles Dickens

#10. Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it's our job to do it one better.

Stanley Kubrick

#11. It may sound as though she wants a simple PowerPoint presentation about the business, but if she's hoping to persuade a client of something, you'll want your slides to help do that. Be clear, too, about deadlines and who needs to be looped in on the project.

Kate White

#12. Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.

Susan Wiggs

#13. Your slides should be a billboard not a document!

Lee Jackson

#14. All substances the cunning chemist Time
Melts down into that liquor of my life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Eugene Ionesco

#16. Humans simply aren't moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with Once upon a time

Jonathan Gottschall

#17. Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

Imtiaz Ali

#18. Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky' ... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.

Zoe Kravitz