Quotes About Speaking Skill

#1. Writing isn't always a speaking skill. Sometimes writing is a listening skill.

Daryl Farmer

#2. Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

Tom Peters

#3. When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.

Janny Wurts

#4. A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

David A. Bednar

#5. I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.

Morgan Matson

#6. Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four.

Anne Lamott

#7. Speaking of wishes, who wished for a man who would love her for her skill?

Meagan Spooner

#8. Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

Bill Nye

#10. You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.

Orson Scott Card

#11. I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

Kerry Stokes

#13. To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

John C. Maxwell

#14. You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?

Taylor Nadeau

#15. Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

C.S. Lewis

#16. For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ...

Patrick O'Brian

#17. What we should see is that there is none among us with nothing to give, and that giving is our purpose.

Nell Gavin

#18. A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

H.L. Mencken

#19. A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

Evan Esar

#20. That makes,what? The second time I've saved your life? Third, if you count that thing in Defense with the Vandy. Speaking of which, you're still thrusting your elbow too high on Skill Nine."
I swallowed twice before I was able to answer. "I'll work on that.

Rachel Hawkins

#21. Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

Maxwell Maltz

#22. I'm supposed to stay calm? Seriously?"
I nodded.
She shook her head. "Cow shit might be more helpful than that advice.

Lisa Kessler

#23. I readied myself for the great effort of speaking with the throat-and-belly instead of the mind-and-heart. It is altogether a different skill.

Catherynne M Valente