Howard Gossage Quotes

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

Listen twice as much as you speak.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

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

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.

John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't.

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.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

Communication is my thing.

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.