This document provides 12 quotes about public speaking from various sources to offer tips on improving public speaking skills. The quotes emphasize the importance of having a clear structure, framing the talk as solving a problem rather than asking for attention, using well-timed pauses, addressing the audience's fears, ensuring the listener understands the message, and making the audience feel something through the presentation. It also encourages keeping messages simple and clear.

1. 12 Public
Speaking
Quotes
Tips and Techniques to
Help You Improve

4. "When speaking in
public, your message -
no matter how important
- will not be effective or
memorable if you don't
have a clear structure."
- Patricia Fripp

5. “It's much easier to pull in
an audience by framing
the talk as an attempt to
solve an intriguing riddle
rather than as a plea for
them to care. The first
feels like a gift being
offered. The second feels
like an ask.”
- Chris Anderson

7. – Mark
Twain
“The right word may
be effective,
but no word was
ever as effective
as a rightly
timed pause.”

8. “Find out
what’s
keeping them
up nights and
offer hope.
Your theme
must be an
answer to
their fears.”
- Gerald C Meyers

11. “The success of your
presentation will be
judged not by the
knowledge you send…
…but by what
the listener
receives.”
– Lilly Walters

12. “People will forget what you
said, people will forget what
you did, but people will never
forget how you made them
feel.” – Maya Angelou

13. "Good communication
does not mean that
you have to
speak in perfectly formed sentences and
paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple
and clear go a long way." - John Kotter

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