Quotes from Nancy Duarte

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.