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Quotes for Public Speakers (No. 282) – Seth Godin

Posted on 13/05/2018 by

“If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.“ — Seth Godin

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Simplicity is the key to brilliance

Posted on 11/03/2018 by

Don’t take my word for it. Just ask … Aristotle  Frédéric Chopin  Chip and Dan Heath  Steve Jobs  Bruce Lee  Charles Mingus  Pablo Picasso  Dieter Rams  Ken Segall  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  Robin Sharma  Simplicity isn’t simple. It takes thought and … Continue reading →

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Quotes for Public Speakers (No. 275) – Mies van der Rohe

Posted on 13/02/2018 by

“Less is more.” —  Mies  van der Rohe Photo courtesy of Mies van der Rohe Society

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Quotes for Public Speakers (No. 252) – Jack Kerouac

Posted on 19/04/2017 by

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” — Jack Kerouac Photo courtesy of Tom Palumbo

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Lessons in Simplicity from Apple’s Former Ad Agency Creative Director

Posted on 02/02/2017 by

Recently I have been catching up on some reading material that sits in a stack on a side desk. (The stack grows and shrinks, but I suspect that the stack will always be there.) One of the articles that caught … Continue reading →

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Quotes for Public Speakers (No. 236) – Luis von Ahn

Posted on 09/06/2016 by

“I was being unclear about what I was saying and I did not fully understand what I was trying to explain to [my PhD supervisor]. He would drill deeper and deeper and deeper until I realized that there was something that I … Continue reading →

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The TED Secret to Great Public Speaking

Posted on 24/05/2016 by

My previous two posts centred around TED Curator Chris Anderson. The first was about his reflections on the day that TED might have died; the second was a quote about compelling presentations. I have decided to create a “tricolon” of posts about Chris … Continue reading →

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Quotes for Public Speakers (No. 233) – Aristotle

Posted on 12/05/2016 by

“It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, ‘charm the crowd’s ears more finely’. Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from … Continue reading →

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11 Steps to a Killer Presentation

Posted on 23/03/2016 by

 

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The Potent Simplicity of Donald Trump

Posted on 04/03/2016 by

As election year 2016 rolls along in the United States, we can no longer ignore the very real possibility that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for President. I did not think that American politics could get much more bizarre, … Continue reading →

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Alain de Botton on Dieter Rams and Good Design

Posted on 22/02/2016 by

A while back, I wrote a post about Dieter Rams, the German industrial designer who is recognized as one of the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century. Rams worked for 40 years at the German consumer products company, Braun. Today, … Continue reading →

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Quotes for Public Speakers (No. 220) – William Zinsser

Posted on 27/01/2016 by

“Who can understand the clotted language of everyday American commerce: the memo, the corporate report, the business letter, the notice from the bank explaining its latest “simplified” statement? What member of an insurance plan can decipher the brochure explaining the … Continue reading →

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