#speeches

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. ↗

— Bill Bradley

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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet. ↗

— Felix Bloch

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It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you love before your eyes: the temples of the gods, your wives and children, the soil of your native land scarred with the ravages of war, and everything which honor and truth call upon you to defend, or recover, or avenge. ↗

— Livy

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I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. ↗

— Demosthenes

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The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. ↗

— Steve Wynn

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I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world. ↗

— Billy Graham

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Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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