I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'
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Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker as soon as you have lost all your marbles.
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To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.
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The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief
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Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.
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In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.
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A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker
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Does the world need another motivational speaker that has nothing to say? Absolutely, unequivocally not
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I just stressed my work ethic and involvement with my chapter and campus,.. I'm not a polished public speaker, but I get hard work done.
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I learned you have to be a good speaker, be able to talk to people and have a good attitude and good personality.
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Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.
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The speaker does support many aspects of education reform.
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The worst day I've spent in Congress in my eleven years was last week when I realized that John Kasich was going to be run over by a cement truck, and the Speaker had agreed to Mr. Shuster's request and that this Republican revolution that I believe so strongly in, is in question of being maintained.
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There's no law prohibiting the former speaker from taking a position in the private sector.
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People don't know who the speaker of the City Council is; they only know who the mayor is. We were always going to have to have things come our way in the end for him to make a runoff.
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They (the school system) created a public forum and invited an outsider in. All this speaker does is make derogatory comments about the union. You tell me how that is on-the-job training.
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This is unfortunate because the Speaker turned back on his words. He stabbed us on our backs.
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He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge,.. The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.
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From the hearing in the Supreme Court on the Clinton v. Jones case, to the extraordinary partnership associated with Speaker Gingrich's ethics case, I think all of that has also reduced the feeling of new beginning and possibility.
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It wasn't just the distance, it was the clarity and the immediate feedback that you get from the person on the other end. You get to enjoy body language and real, live conversation as opposed to a speaker on a conference call.
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