Extemporaneous Speaking Quotes

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.