Speech Improvement Quotes

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

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.

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.

There's a fashion abroad generally to speak the language as badly as possible. I'm of a mind to start a society for the reinstatement of the letter 't' and the banishment of the glottal stop.

I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.

But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.