Quotes About Presentations 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. Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.

Dale Ludwig

#3. 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

#4. In presentations or speeches less really is more

Stephen Keague

#5. Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

Mike Richards

#6. 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

#7. Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

Linda Evangelista

#8. I'll try anything once, most things twice.

Michael Flatley

#9. 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

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

Stephen Keague

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

Stephen Keague

#12. Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Ally Condie

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

Ian Lamont

#14. Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

Caroline Myss

#15. ...People so often ignored their gut because of social niceties and expectations. Luckily Dax didn't have that issue; he was barely fucking civilized.

Katie Reus

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

Dale Ludwig

#17. That's my No. 1 goal. I want to be part of (captain) Tom Lehman 's team.

Fred Funk

#18. 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

#19. Letting go, of course, is a scary enterprise for those of us who believe that the world revolves only because it has a handle on the top of it which we personally turn, and that if we were to drop this handle for even a moment, well - that would be the end of the universe.

Anonymous

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

Dale Ludwig