Nancy Duarte famous quotes

03-28-2025

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.
-- Nancy Duarte
If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.
-- Nancy Duarte

#Thinking #Vacation #Hands
Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.
-- Nancy Duarte

#Encouragement #Hero #Path
Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.
-- Nancy Duarte

#Talking #Practice #Design
When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
-- Nancy Duarte

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

#Powerful #Names #Movement
Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.
-- Nancy Duarte

#Lying #Ideas #Attention
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.
-- Nancy Duarte

#Differences #Ideas #Way
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.
-- Nancy Duarte

#Mean #Commitment #Discipline
Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today
-- Nancy Duarte

#Organization #Marketing #Today

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