Quotes About Ted Talks

#1. The tone of the new ones, in their TED Talks, in PowerPointed product launches, in testimony to parliaments and congresses, in utopianly titled books, was a smarmy syrup of convenient conviction and personal surrender that he remembered well from the Republic. He

Jonathan Franzen

#2. I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

Jose Gonzalez

#3. I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

Damon Lindelof

#4. I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

Damon Lindelof

#5. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make
and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Ken Robinson

#6. So I've got five books, a building, and a hundred bucks.
I'm starting my business tomorrow.

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

#7. I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

Greg Egan

#8. Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.

Thomm Quackenbush

#9. I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

Gordon Lightfoot

#10. One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.

Wade Boggs

#11. I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

Marcel Duchamp

#12. consider experimenting with programs like Prezi, Powtoon, Emaze and Focusky among others. Here are some tips to help you make your presentation slide: It would be recommended to use images and photos. If you would watch TED-style talks, most of the speakers use images to convey a point.

Jacob Andrews

#13. Souls soar high above reach,
Hands extend but never touch,
Words exchanged in dulcet tones,
Tis a fated moment to understand one's truth,
Time to let go.

Truth Devour

#14. Story telling is joke telling.

Andrew Stanton

#15. There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#16. It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them.

Anandamayi Ma

#17. Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#18. To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant
because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#19. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

Ian McEwan

#20. Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

Ted Yoho

#21. Just as movies, radio, and television evolved into new forms over time, the ebook will also become something more than just a way to read books. It will become its own specific and unique way of creating and sharing experience.

David Gerrold

#22. Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Neil Gaiman

#23. Creativity is as important as literacy

Ken Robinson

#24. We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world may no longer be to write a letter to the editor or publish a book. It may be simply to stand up and say something ... because both the words and the passion with which they are delivered can now spread across the world at warp speed.

Chris Anderson

#25. From high school, you can see my Sierra Club card - I've been a member since 1979. That gives you an indication of early interest.

Mike Quigley

#26. Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Cameron Russell

#27. For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.

Thomas Campbell

#28. The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

George Orwell