Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.

Tone matters more than words.

The problem with some truth-tellers is that they don't do it in a way that makes people want to listen.

Learning how to get a point across is pretty useful in any situation.

I believe in form and the manner of what you say being as important as the content of what you say.

It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

If something doesn't come out of your mouth right, you've got to acknowledge the fact that you're trying to deliver an honest performance. If it doesn't' come out of your mouth correctly, then it's not going to work.

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.