Quotes About Speaker

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

Past subjunctive forms are used when reporting: May/might as well can be translated using the verb poder. When the speaker expresses advice in a mild way (that is, the advice is not emphasized or insisted on), por las mismas can be added (usually preceding the verb poder):

Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

Western communication has what linguists call a transmitter orientation--that is, it is considered the responsibility of the speaker to communicate ideas clearly and unambiguously. ...within a Western cultural context, which holds that if there is confusion, it is the fault of the speaker. But Korea, like many Asian countries, is receiver oriented. It is up to the listener to make sense of what is being said.

The Doppler Effect of Communication": There is always distortion between what a speaker says and what a listener wants it to mean. "The Centrifugal Force of Arguments": The farther you move from the core of the problem, the faster the situation spins out of control.

The Doppler Effect of Communication": There is always distortion between what a speaker says and what a listener wants it to mean. "The

APORIA  (APO'RIA) n.s. [a figure in rhetorick, by which the speaker shews, that he doubts where to begin for the multitude of matter, or what to say in some strange and ambiguous thing; and doth, as it were, argue the case with himself. Thus Cicero says, Whether he took them from his fellows more impudently, gave them to a harlot more lasciviously, removed them from the Roman people more wickedly, or altered them more presumptuously, I cannot well declare. Smith's Rhetorick.

She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example, put down a spokesman for the pesticide industry with a remark that people still quoted at parties: "And I presume on the eighth day God called you and said, 'I changed my mind about insects!

A person who brings the smile to the faces of sincere employees is a motivational speaker but the people who make only the employers happy are just bootlickers & they are seen enjoying lavish lifestyle.

A person who speaks ill from the dais about the politicians but goes well with the majority of the people should not be trusted of his/her public welfare words

A seeker of the material pleasure can never be a true motivational speaker, but only demotivator eventually for s/he can never uplift the morale of the spectators who are economically weaker.

An effective rule to not make fool of oneself with the deceptive, nice words of the people is to never support or share the thought that has got the picture of the writer or speaker on the poster with many supporters often seen hanging around him/her on the ground and especially when it bears an advice or the point of view that speaks with Yourself, Your and You.

Many people who used to claim or project ownself to be motivational speakers and preach spectators to 'Never Give Up' from the dais have themselves given up after knowing that it has not remained a profitable business

Motivation is about being honest to oneself to say own thoughts truthfully to others for an inspiration , but almost everyone knows the universal fact that the truth is often bitter ; so a person serving only sweet talk to the people all the time is not a motivation speaker but a self-seeker.

Motivation is about being honest to oneself to say own thoughts truthfully to others for an inspiration , but almost everyone knows the universal fact that the truth is often bitter ; so a person serving only sweet talk to the people all the time is not a motivational speaker but a self-seeker.

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

It is easy to raise a laugh, but dangerous, for it is the greatest test of an orator's control of his audience to be able to land them again on the solid earth of sober thinking.

The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and had now come back for her child.

Unlike criticism, contempt is particularly toxic because it assumes a moral superiority in the speaker. Contempt is often directed at people who have been excluded from a group or declared unworthy of its benefits.