Arunachalam Muruganantham Quotes

Unlike the current occupant of the White House [George W. Bush], he has no difficulty in orally extemporizing a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

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

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

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

I want to, when I say things on TV, to talk to the people in English.

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.

For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth and give it. And so the expression, the gestures, the emphasis on words, all of that just comes.

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.

Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.

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

I have some friends whose sermons are extremely practical - so practical that I can put them right to use. I'm trying to learn how to do that better; but I don't think my approach or style really has changed in these 30 years. Whether that's good or bad I don't know, but I don't think it has.

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

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

What I'm doing when I'm doing my speaking engagements is that I'm delivering serious material with humor. So, instead of delivering humor without a particular point other than to entertain people, I'm delivering comedy in a serious way.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.

I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any Hollywood actor. John McCain, his opponent - Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain.