“No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short”
― Stephen Keague, The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life.
But we can decide what happens in us
- how we can take it, what we do with it
- and that is what really counts in the end."
Joseph Fort Newton
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
Sir Edmund Hilary
And then we think of those people as extraordinary!
The #stories that inspire us tell us that it was an ordinary person doing extraordinary things.
The message is always that you too can do extraordinary things, even though you may be an ordinary person.
Your Story Matters. it does. Don't waste it!!
"I am realistic. I expect miracles."
Wayne Dyer
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo
"Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the would we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness,."
Marianne Williamson
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself. ~ John Ruskin
[Quotation about public speaking] Public speaking will have its place
"As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion so long will public speaking have it place." ~ William Jennings Bryan
Public Speaking has its place
In my current obsession with storytelling, I have discovered a Hopi Proverb which says the "Those who tell the stories rule the world."
Leaders everywhere are those who give their followers something to believe in, a narrative that explains the present and paints a future.
And leaders are not just those in government or religion.
They lead in business, they lead in our institutions, they lead in our families.
We all have the capacity to be a leader at some time.
I am only thankful that the skills of public speaking are there to give us the power to lead and to create a world with values that we can uphold.
The web of life owes life to none and freely offers it to all.
It is not a force challenging us to battle,
but a sacred and powerful partner calling us to join in the dance.
~ David Christopher
"I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment."
Doug Hall
