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A friend of mine emailed this to me. Obviously the quotes are from 10 different sources but whoever put the quotes together with the qualities for effective communication did a great job. If any of you know who deserves the credit please email me and let me know. I think that this was so cleverly done. Since we can all use tips to help us present our ideas more effectively, I decided to post this. I always love to see quotes through the ages and to see how some things never change. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I can only take credit for the title and doing a bit of punctuation editing. Otherwise the credit is due someone else. Enjoy!
1. CLARITY:
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
2. CONCISENESS:
“Deliver your words not by number but by weight.”
—Proverb
3. CORRECTNESS:
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. COHERENCE:
“To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.”
—William Safire
5. COMPLETENESS:
“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”
—Jim Rohn
6. CREATIVITY:
“The first ingredient in conversation is truth: the next good sense; the third, good humor; and the fourth wit.”
—Sir William Temple
7. CONSIDERATION:
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
—Tony Robbins
8. COMPETENCE:
“There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience.”
—Alexander Gregg
9. CONFIDENCE:
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.”
—Scott Turow
10. CREDIBILITY:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, ‘I hear you spoke here tonight.’ Oh, it was nothing, I replied modestly. ‘Yes,’ the little old lady nodded, ‘that’s what I heard.’”
—Gerald R. Ford
Debbie Darling, ©2013 The Presentation Pros
A friend of mine emailed this to me. Obviously the quotes are from 10 different sources but whoever put the quotes together with the qualities for effective communication did a great job. If any of you know who deserves the credit please email me and let me know. I think that this was so cleverly done. Since we can all use tips to help us present our ideas more effectively, I decided to post this. I always love to see quotes through the ages and to see how some things never change. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I can only take credit for the title and doing a bit of punctuation editing. Otherwise the credit is due someone else. Enjoy!
1. CLARITY:
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
2. CONCISENESS:
“Deliver your words not by number but by weight.”
—Proverb
3. CORRECTNESS:
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. COHERENCE:
“To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.”
—William Safire
5. COMPLETENESS:
“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”
—Jim Rohn
6. CREATIVITY:
“The first ingredient in conversation is truth: the next good sense; the third, good humor; and the fourth wit.”
—Sir William Temple
7. CONSIDERATION:
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
—Tony Robbins
8. COMPETENCE:
“There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience.”
—Alexander Gregg
9. CONFIDENCE:
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.”
—Scott Turow
10. CREDIBILITY:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, ‘I hear you spoke here tonight.’ Oh, it was nothing, I replied modestly. ‘Yes,’ the little old lady nodded, ‘that’s what I heard.’”
—Gerald R. Ford
Debbie Darling, ©2013 The Presentation Pros
