Simon Mainwaring Quotes

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

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

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

Go ahead, Teleprompter, Go ahead!

You can have a five-page speech, and if the camera's not looking at you, you're not there.

It's essential that you make eye contact with your audience. You've got to know what's happening out there.

I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

As a presenter, you have to speak with artificial energy and enthusiasm.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?

I'm a presenter.