Devices Quote by Nancy Duarte

PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.

— Edward Tufte

I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.

— Saul Bass

“We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them…

— Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger

Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional

— Carmine Gallo

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

— Nancy Duarte

I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to…

— Steve Jobs

“But the best presentations—the ones that inspire action—are those where the same journey is portrayed, except the audience is the focus. It’s not about…

— Adam Braun

It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other…

— Garth Stein

Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the…

— Nancy Duarte

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

— Peter Guber

Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

— Mae West