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Public Speaking is very easy. -- Dan Quayle
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference. -- Tom Peters
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident. -- Dale Carnegie
The people are to be taken in very small doses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a person is to have a story to tell. -- Isak Dinesen
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. -- Claudius
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. -- Joseph Pulitzer
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. -- Evan Esar
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. -- Kin Hubbard
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -- Mark Twain
I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name. -- George M. Cohan
If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will. -- Harvey Diamond
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. -- Dale Carnegie
"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? " -- Kin Hubbard
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. -- Robert Orben
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest -- Winston Churchill
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. -- Sydney J. Harris
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. -- Gore Vidal
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality. -- Don Marquis
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. -- Henry Adams
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. -- Dale Carnegie
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. -- Winston Churchill
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. -- Joseph Conrad
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? -- Eileen Atkins
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street! -- Eliot Spitzer
Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them. -- Susan Cain
I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book. -- Bristol Palin
I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at. -- Terry Bradshaw
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking. -- Rene Redzepi
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit. -- Kevin James
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks. -- Jane Fonda
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is. -- Annie Lennox
I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree. -- Nicholson Baker
I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard. -- Kerry Stokes
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. -- Albert Ellis
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties. -- Warwick Davis
I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking. -- Paul Dano
I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage. -- Karl Pilkington
My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for. -- Chris Moneymaker
I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them. -- Charles Kennedy
Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery. -- David D. Burns
I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one. -- Robin S. Sharma
For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference. -- Mimi Kennedy
If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust. -- Hillary Clinton
When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief. -- Blake Mycoskie
I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan. -- Rebel Wilson
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. -- Jason Wiles
When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes. -- Kelly Clarkson
My greatest fear is speaking in public. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
Good public speaking is based on good private thinking -- Scott Berkun
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it. -- Franklin P. Adams
Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke. -- Jon Stewart
Public speaking skills are an essential key to achieving career advancement and success. -- Robert Moment
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. -- Kamala Harris
Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves. -- Tony Robbins
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything. -- Will Rogers
Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him. -- Richard Brookhiser
I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger. -- Dani Shapiro
Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first! -- Sidney Sheldon
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.... -- Abraham Lincoln
More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking. -- Deborah Tannen
I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it. -- Kristen Wiig
It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet. -- Drake
I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square. -- John Cornyn
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. -- Tibor Fischer
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up. -- Kumail Nanjiani
I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can. -- Jack Abramoff
Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona. -- Barack Obama
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. -- George Bernard Shaw
Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation. -- John Medina
My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service. -- Scott McClellan
A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats. -- Dana Perino
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.' -- Lysander Spooner
I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then. -- April Bowlby
My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural. -- Lee Maracle
I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there. -- Tom Green
Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy. -- Jerry Seinfeld
With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume." -- Laurie Helgoe
I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental. -- Ricky Gervais

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