Nancy Duarte Quotes

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written word but by the spoken word.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

If you want to permanently change men's minds and hearts, you have to trust in the power of the spoken word.

Words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

A great speech is literature.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

The practice of public speaking flourishes in every peaceful and free state.

This trial has developed in the most remarkable manner, the insane love of speaking among public men. We are wading knee deep in words, words, words ….

Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.

Part of politics is redundancy. You’ve got to say the same thing over and over even if you get tired of it…not everyone has heard it.

word thrower … phrase maker

Part of politics is redundancy. You just have to repeat things sometimes because not everyone has heard your message.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

Power comes through public persuasion.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.