We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.

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.

Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.

When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you.

Love comes in seemingly insignificant moments and if you’re not paying attention, you might miss them.

An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing.

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.

I have a psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.

The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.