12 eye opening quotes on presentations
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12eye opening
quotes on presentations from presentation thought leaders
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“Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it ‘to whom it may concern.”
― Nancy Duarte, Slide:ology
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“No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short ”
― Stephen Keague,The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting
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“ Often, people come to a conclusion about your presentation by the time you’re on the second slide.
After that, it’s often too late for your bullet points to do you much good.”
― Seth Godin
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A great way to stand out is to be real. Presentations tend to be stripped of all humanness
— despite the fact that humans make up the entire audience!
― Nancy Duarte, Resonate
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We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.”
― Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger
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“ Communication is about getting others to adopt your point of view, to help them understand why you’re excited (or sad, or optimistic, or whatever else you are).
If all you want to do is create a file of facts and figures, then cancel the meeting and send in a report. ”
― Seth Godin, Author, Really Bad PowerPoint
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“ The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech ”
― Stephen Keague,The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting
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“ Your slides should be a billboard not a document! ”
― Lee Jackson, PowerPoint Surgery: How to Create Presentation Slides That Make Your Message Stick
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“If you start reading your material because you do not know your material, the audience is very quickly going to think that you are a bozo.
They are going to say to themselves “This bozo is reading his slides. I can read faster than this bozo can speak.
I will just read ahead.”
― Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (2nd Edition)
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“It’s laziness on the presenter’s part to put everything on one slide.”
- Nancy Duarte, Slide:ology
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“ In many instances, presentations are the last impression a customer has of a company before closing a business deal “
– Nancy Duarte, Slide:ology
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If everyone in the room agreed with you, you wouldn’t need to do a presentation, would you? […] the reason we do presentations is to make a point, to sell one or more ideas.”
– Seth Godin, Really Bad PowerPoint
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