Chrissy Costanza 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'm not good with words, and I get mixed up.

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

I am not eloquent.

I am not a good cue card reader.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I'm not very good with words, weirdly.

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

It's hard for me to perform in English.

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

I'm a communicator.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

We have to teach girls communication skills.

I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of my mouth.

I didn't think I was much of a public speaker.

There can never silence or dead air so you're constantly having to talk about something even if in your head you're like 'I don't even know what I'm saying right now.' But you have to still be interesting.

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.

I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.