Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

When I speak, I am well articulated.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

I still have perfect diction!

I don't talk in sound bites.

If you are knowledgeable about something and are able to talk about it, you should be able to express yourself.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.

Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be great, but then it's got to be delivered. It's a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.