Speakers Quotes · Page 3

Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.

— Michael Rost

A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark.

— John Paul Warren

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

— Dale Carnegie

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

— Heath Ledger

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

— Mark Victor Hansen

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

— Michel de Montaigne

The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in…

— Joseph Crowley

“Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF…

— John Paul Warren

“That’s because speakers are only credible when what they say is in sync with who they are.”

— Christopher Witt

“Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.”

— John Paul Warren

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

— Anthony Trollope

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison

So in our shared mission to make America great again, I support and endorse our Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

— Donald Trump

“Honestly, if everyone likes what you say something is wrong with your message.”

— Ashley Ormon

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a…

— Dale Carnegie

I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,'…

— Mohsin Hamid

My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to…

— Brad Willis

I have some speakers up here, thank God, because last night I didn't have them and I was telling jokes and I…

— Mitch Hedberg

Donald Trump is horrendous, but he is also honest. Both Presidents [Bill] Clinton and [Barak] Obama were great speakers, but unrepentant mass…

— Andre Vltchek

Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to…

— Cornelia Funke

When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It's simple: if you…

— T. Harv Eker

Paul Ryan is speaker of the house and that - that is up to members of the caucus. Donald Trump is not…

— Kellyanne Conway

Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be…

— Corra May Harris

The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some…

— Lord Chesterfield

Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through…

— Ann Coulter

I'm a nature lover, I want at any given time to be able to bring lots of plants into my house, have…

— Sebastian Clovis

I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go…

— Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread,…

— Matthew Zapruder

Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus,…

— James Traficant

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

— William P. Leahy

“Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.”

— John Paul Warren

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an…

— Ayn Rand

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

— Ronald Reagan

John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

— Stephen Colbert

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

— Peter Farb

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

— Lou Reed

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

— Homer

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

— Theodor Adorno