Gerald R. Ford Quotes

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.

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

If you are knowledgeable about something and are able to talk about it, you should be able to express yourself.

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you can teach them that they can make their own voices more effective by being able to communicate more clearly and forcefully. It makes people feel more capable when they can write - for instance to make a request - of a politician - and when they are able to receive a reply.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

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.

Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!

I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

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.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.