Bo Sanchez Quotes

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

The curse of speech writing is being part of a team.

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

I always work from an outline.

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like "what happens next." I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.

Every writer has to write his speech.

Everyone wants a whack at the speech.

President Johnson wanted his speech writers to use words with fou r letters, sentences with four words, and paragraphs with four sentences

word thrower … phrase maker

Churchill would spend as many hours practicing as there were minutes in the speech.

The best way to study about speech writing is to read great speeches.

Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks.

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

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

I hate speeches.

I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.

I try to be as good a director as I possibly can. I try to be prepared, and I hope everyone else is. The preparation, I suppose, means just about everything. Little things mean a lot.

Moderating a debate means spending more time with briefing books than with your children. It means writing and rewriting and rephrasing. It means finding a way to be alert enough to notice when your question goes unanswered and nimble enough to decide what you will do about that on the spot.

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.

I feel like I've got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.