World's fastest talker Steve Woodmore can talk at rate 637 words per minute.
Glossophilia is a love of language, be it foreign or native. The term refers to people with a deep and passionate love for language and the structure of language.
If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.
Dianna Booher
Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.
John Taylor Gatto
If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
Woodrow Wilson
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
Garrison Keillor
Winston Churchill, thought to be one of the best orators of his time, memorized every speech backwards and forwards ahead of time to hide his stutter.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
Jean Giraudoux
Find the message first and the words will follow.
Cato
Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it: To Whom It May Concern.
Ken Haemer
The finest language is mostly made up of simple, unimposing words.
George Eliot
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The male vocal folds, are between 17 mm and 25 mm in length. The female vocal folds are between 12.5 mm and 17.5 mm in length.
There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.
Mark Twain
There are always three speeches for every one you actually gave. The one you practised, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie
The shortest Presidential inaugural speech in US was given by George Washington in 1789. It was 135 words long.
Grace Kelly was so ashamed of her harsh Philadelphia accent that she asked her father at 18 for a tape recorder and worked hours listening to her voice and correcting inflections with great discipline.
Laughing, crying, and yawning are all semi-contagious because they are social cues -- Ways of strengthening the bond of a group.
The average rate of speech for English speakers in the United States is about 150 words per minute.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
The voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
John Ford
Rhetoric is from the Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós), "oratorical", from ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr), "public speaker", related to ῥῆμα (rhêma), "that which is said or spoken, word, saying", and ultimately derived from the verb λέγω (legō), "to speak, say".
Sophophobia is the fear of learning.
Three out of every four individuals suffer from speech anxiety: that is 75 percent of the world population according to the World Health Organization.
Average native English speaker uses idioms at an average rate of 4.08 idioms per minute.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel
The market is not seduced by logic. People are moved by stories and drama and hints and clues and discovery. Logic is a battering ram, one that might work if your case is overwhelming. Wal-Mart won by logic (cheap!), but you probably won’t.
Seth Godin
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
Seth Godin
It’s quite simple. Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down.
Sir Winston Churchill
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
You can tell any story 20 different ways. The trick is to pick one and go with it.
Clint Eastwood
Talk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much.
John Wayne
Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Hebert Gardner
Studies show that before we even speak, the way we stand (slouched or not) counts for over 80% of a first impression.
According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two! This means, to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care.
William Safire
Prepare your heart and mind before you prepare your speech.
Stephen Covey
The voiced speech of a typical adult male will have a fundamental frequency from 85 to 180 Hz, and that of a typical adult female from 165 to 255 Hz.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Some people want the audience to love them. I love the audience.
Luciano Pavarotti
A study in the Heart & Lung journal shows that people who listen to music while working out are better speakers.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
More people are afraid of public speaking than dying.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic … and don’t talk too much.
Norman Vincent Peale
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Glossophobia is the fear of public speaking or speaking in general.
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
If I could just say a few words … I’d be a better public speaker.
Homer J. Simpson
Women speak about 7,000 words a day while men average 2,000.
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
Ralph Richardson
William Henry Harrison the ninth President of the United States gave the longest inaugural speech with 8,445 words. He died the next month of pneumonia from being exposed to the cold and wet during his speech.
Demosthenes, was born with a serious speech impediment, talked with pebbles in his mouth and recited verses while running uphill. To strengthen his voice, he spoke on the seashore over the roar of the waves.
Sophophilia' is sexual gratification from learning.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl Buechner
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
Speak properly, and is as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.
Bill Clinton
A statistic should tell a story.
Margaret Thatcher
Paul Ekman classifies six emotions as basic: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise.
No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
Seth Godin
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