Communication Quote by Keith Willhite

“This is the most common misconception about speechwriting. It came up especially often in the years before I started at the White House, when…

— David Litt

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

— Joseph Joubert

“The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.”

— Allan Lokos

“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.”

— Erin Moure

“Professor Osterweis taught us how to structure a speech: introduction, three main points, peroration, and conclusion.”

— George W. Bush

Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His…

— Mark McKinnon

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

— Oliver Sacks

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

— Maria Montessori

Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at…

— Virginia Woolf

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

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

— John Sterling

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

— Scott Berkun