Howard Cosell Quotes

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.

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

Miss Universe is someone who communicates her thoughts effectively and is able to connect to people.

Jonathan Agnew is a good person to learn off because he's a brilliant broadcaster and the calmness and clarity with which he does things is a real skill.

I know what to say, how to say it, how to bring profile to the issues I care about and people want to listen to me.

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Scientists are not necessarily the best communicators.

I learned how to defend myself at the OSB, not physically but with words.

Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.

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

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

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.

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

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?

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there and win a debate with the press corps. If that's what I try to do, then I'm going to lose.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

Listen twice as much as you speak.