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.

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.

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.

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.

We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.

Red in the head, Silver in the heart

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.