"Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation."

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Source : John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.78, Pear Press

John Medina

#Winning Quotes #Battle Quotes #Public Speaking Quotes

“My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.”
“As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
“By honoring your words you are honored in this world.”
“As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.”
“Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.”
“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.”
“My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.”
“I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.”

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