Top 1200 Great Speakers Quotes & Sayings

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

I'm the queen of outside speakers.

President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

I trust microphones, speakers and recordings less and less, and no longer buy into the idea that I can recreate at home, or in my earphones, the experience of hearing live acoustic instruments. The orchestra is already a set of speakers that react differently to each player, each room and each concert - it's that high level of uncertainly and unrepeatability that I like. The music is just soaked into the walls of a room straight from the instruments - and it's a one-off deal. The alternative - left speaker, right speaker - is kind of a compromise.

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

When I first started, all I had was the laptop and some cheap headphones. I ain't have no speakers. You know, no Rocket speakers or no MPC. No keyboard, none of that. It just was the laptop and the headphones. Going from there, it just teaches you a lot.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.

Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!"

I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.

For the great speakers, it's all about the audience. And the feeling they have is that they're giving a gift, of maybe knowledge or inspiration or motivation.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.

Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. It's all idolatry!Satan is getting a great victory as we seem to worship these ministers on tapes and records and clammer to get their autographs in churches and concert halls from coast to coast.

I love blasting good music on the Bluetooth speakers through my phone.

I love tearing people's speakers up.

I love good, loud speakers.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

I'm always blowing the speakers out in studios, like, there's smoke coming out of them. I found out that I'm not built for studio monitors. I record and mix down everything in the headphones and then I bring it to the speakers.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.

I don't have smart speakers in the house because I have a thing about whether they are recording our conversations.

Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Donald Trump is horrendous, but he is also honest. Both Presidents [Bill] Clinton and [Barak] Obama were great speakers, but unrepentant mass murderers.

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.