Articulate Delivery Quotes

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

One has to be blessed to have a voice that creates impact.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.