Rolf Harris Quotes

You can have a five-page speech, and if the camera's not looking at you, you're not there.

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Sorry, public speaking isn't really my strong side.

As a presenter, you have to speak with artificial energy and enthusiasm.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

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.

There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.

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

The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

Flirting all starts with eye contact! You can tell a girl is into you if she's across the room and still making eye contact with you.

When you're in a conversation, genuinely be in it. Stare people in their eyes. Know what you're talking about. Enjoy that moment.

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations.