Quotes About Presentation

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.

When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.

I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate - then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It's not a rewarding experience for me to cook.

The upside of social media is you can craft how you want people to see you in some way.

I dress for women - and I undress for men.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn't it? Or at least feels like it does.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

I was very confident on the stage, and I stood out in a red gown.

Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too - and this may seem kind of odd - Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.