The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

— Ralph Richardson

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

— Mark Twain

“During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their…

— Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger

“The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech”

— Stephen Keague

“In presentations or speeches less really is more”

— Stephen Keague

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

— Anonymous

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

— Cato the Elder

“Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.”

— Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger

“Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance”

— Stephen Keague

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

— Dianna Daniels Booher

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears

— Gerald C. Meyers

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public…

— Abraham Lincoln

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short”

— Stephen Keague