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Lake Tahoe

I never met a speaker more important than a listener.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Leadership, Listening, Public Speaking, Speech

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People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Steve Jobs

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech

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Montana

When another speaks, be attentive yourself, and disturb not the audience.

George Washington

Communication, Listening, Public Speaking

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Oregon Coast

A wise man fills his brains before emptying his mouth.

Kenyan Proverb

Knowledge, Public Speaking, Speech, Wisdom

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Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

Jonathan Swift

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech

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Mount Rainier National Park

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.

Coco Chanel

Courage, Public Speaking, Self, Self-esteem, Thinking

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California, Napa Valley

A scared thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

Public Speaking, Speech

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Hawaii, Maui

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

Courage, Listening, Public Speaking, Speech

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Hawaii, Maui

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

William Shakespeare

Communication, Listening, Public Speaking, Solitude, Speech, Thinking

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Hawaii, Maui

Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech

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Lake Tahoe

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.

William Shakespeare

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech, Wisdom

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Honduras, Roatan

Speak, hands, for me!

William Shakespeare

Communication, Public Speaking

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Lake Tahoe

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men’s blood: I only speak right on.

William Shakespeare

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech

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Lake Tahoe

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech

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Valley of Fire State Park

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Theodore Roosevelt

Customer Service, Public Speaking, Service

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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill, is cordial speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Communication, Conflict, Public Speaking, Speech

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Grand Teton National Park

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

Integrity, Mistakes, Public Speaking, Speech

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Bermuda

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech

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Lake Tahoe

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

Communication, Public Speaking

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Death Valley National Park

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

Margaret Fuller

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech

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Grand Teton National Park

Be not careless in your deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Marcus Aurelius

Action, Communication, Public Speaking, Speech, Thinking

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Lake Tahoe

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.

Lee Iacocca

Communication, Confidence, Public Speaking, Speech

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Capital Reef National Park

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Accountability, Listening, Negotiation, Persuasion, Public Speaking, Self

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Yellowstone National Park

Lasting influence is achieved through persuasion, not coercion.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Negotiation, Persuasion, Public Speaking

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Yellowstone National Park

Public speaking is a skill you get great at, just like anything else, with practice.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Practice, Public Speaking, Speech, Work

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Lake Tahoe

Fear will either control you or set you free.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Courage, Fear, Freedom, Public Speaking

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Hawaii, Maui

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Horace

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech

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We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

Public Speaking, Speech, Truth

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