Padmasree Warrior Quotes

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

Student TV and radio are great grounding for all presenting. Just to get used to coming up with an idea, making it and getting it out there, I think that's a really good pattern and a good habit to get into.

In late May 1993, I gave my first QLA Seminar at the Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles.

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

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

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.

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

I'm a communicator.

I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.

The curse of speech writing is being part of a team.

What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.

I feed on conferences.