Speaking Skills Quotes

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much support from the people around me that I can achieve something like that, crazy introvert that I am, I never would have thought that would happen.

I'm not very articulate.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

See, I would never have Beyonce up here public speaking. She's not good at it. Solange was just at Yale. She's incredible at it.

I'm pretty shy. I'm so bad at public speaking. I can answer questions in front of a crowd, that seems to be fine, but standing up there by myself and delivering some kind of speech, I'm the worst. I hate it.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.

The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.

I read French much better than I speak.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

I get nervous every single time. It doesn't matter if there're five people or five thousand. What I have noticed is that the more people there are, the less nervous I am. It's way harder to impress five people.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Why wouldn't I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say?

I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.

I usually never walk by a microphone.