Quotes About Presentation Skills

#1. When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

Dale Ludwig

#2. You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

Duane Michals

#3. Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.

Tom Gjelten

#4. Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.

Dale Ludwig

#5. Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#6. A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

Dale Ludwig

#7. In presentations or speeches less really is more

Stephen Keague

#8. During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

Dale Ludwig

#9. Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#10. I thought seven stories must be a safe distance.

Sylvia Plath

#11. The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#12. Psychopathy was positively associated with in-house ratings of charisma and presentation style: creativity, good strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills.

Kevin Dutton

#13. A few mistakes do not a fiasco make. Professionals throw them off casually but file them away to reinvent as an endearing anecdote in later presentations. Make them part of the performance! Put them behind you and keep going whatever happens.

Ruth Bonetti

#14. By the time we were done I was exhausted. I don't know how movie stars do the same scene over and over like that. It takes a lot out of you.

Michael Thomas Ford

#15. The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech

Stephen Keague

#16. No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short

Stephen Keague

#17. The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search.

Charlene Li

#18. In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.

Ian Lamont

#19. You could've warned me." Jason's frown was likewise focused on the old man once again. "You both need to pay better attention," Sensei said. "I didn't think I needed to explain that glowing metal is hot.

Kyle Timmermeyer

#20. As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

Edith Stein

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

Lee Jackson

#22. I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Zebulon Pike

#23. It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them.

Dale Ludwig

#24. My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

William Hung

#25. In a place of all this beauty and potential ... we just repeat the same mistakes. Do we hate paradise so much we have to be sure it becomes a trash heap?

Patrick Ness

#26. We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn't it be easier to just call them conversations? That's really what they are.

Dale Ludwig

#27. Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

Marc Benioff

#28. The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.

Douglas Coupland

#29. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Shiv Khera

#30. Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

Dale Ludwig