Avenues Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other…

— Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in…

— Abraham Lincoln

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can…

— Jurgen Habermas

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain,…

— Gorgias

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

“There exists a remarkable consensus among those who have studied and practiced public speaking over the last twenty-five hundred years that the most effective…

— Keith Willhite

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think…

— Laurie Helgoe

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a…

— Sergio De La Pava

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speech is like a medicine, a small dose of which cures but an excess of which kills.

— Hazrat Ali