Speaking Quotes

One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

I'd like people to like me. I think most of my friends like me! I'm real and I get in trouble for speaking my mind. I will definitely tell you the truth because I have to. I get in trouble that way.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.

You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career.

No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.

The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.

Everyone has freedom to say whatever they want to say. I think it takes a stronger person to hold their tongue as opposed to speaking out.

It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet.

I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on.

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.

I am really glad women are speaking out.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.

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

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages.

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

In Speaking Out I do my best to answer those questions I was asked and more, and I provide strategies for how to speak out and keep on speaking out without burning out.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

Men of few words are the best men."(3.2.41)

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it’s not going to get you respect.

You are mine." He spoke against her lips. "You always have been. You always will be.