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3.1. Quotes about Public Speaking

  • WARM-UP ACTIVITY: COLLECTION OF FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT BEING A GOOD SPEAKER

     

    Let's collect quotes of famous people about the art of public speaking.

    Instructions:

    - Choose a quote you like:

    - Save it as an image and upload it in MATERIALS /IMAGES/QUOTES

    - Click on "Add item" in the Twinboard below

    - Write the name of the famous person in TITLE and who that persons is/was famous for in DESCRIPTION.

    - Click on IMAGE and ADD and pick your image from the gallery.

    - Click on SUBMIT

     

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  • FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT PUBLIC SPEAKING

    1. Plato

    Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates

    2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    German poet, playwright, novelist, scientisT, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist.

    6. Albert Einstein

    Born in Germany.
    He was a physicist and the most important and famous scientist of the 20th century.

    4. Fawzia Koofi

    Afghan politician, women's rights activist, member of Parliament in Kabul and is the Vice President of the National Assembly.

    5. Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was a British American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

    3. Thomas Edison

    Edison was an American cientific and inventor who invented lots of gadgets to improve lifestyle, like the incandescent bulb or what we now call voice recorder

    12. Mike Tyson

    He was one of the most important boxer in the history, he was born in 1966 and he won twice world heavyweight title.

    13. Dale Carnegie

    Dale Carnegie was an American writer. His most famous book is called "How to Make Friends and Influence People".

    15. Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde was a writer and a playwright from Ireland, he had a lot of problems because of his homosexuality and entered the prision because of this. He had a lot of good plays where he showed the reality of the noble society of his time.

    14. Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was the third president of EEUU, and it is considered the father of EEUU. As a philosopher he defended the ilustration.

    16. Henry Ford

    Henry Ford was an Industrialist and business magnate who was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and he created the first accessible car for the middle-class.

    17. Maya Angelou

    Maya Angelou was a poet, novelist, activist by the civil rights, actress and singer of the USA. She was a professor of American literature and studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

    19. MAYA ANGELOU

    Maya Angelou, was an American poet, memoirist and civil rights activist.

    20. ALBERT EINSTEIN

    Albert Einstein was a physicist of German descent, later nationalized in Switzerland and the United States. He was the best known and most important scientist of the twentieth century.

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    21. William Arthur Ward

    Born in Louisiana, he was a military man, a writer, a teacher, a lawyer.
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    22. Winston Churchill

    Born in Woodstock
    He was a British politician, military man and writer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II

    9. Henry Ford

    He was a very important person who created the production lines, optimising the construction of automobiles that jumped in other fields.

    8. Michelle Obama

    Michelle Obama is an American lawyer, university administrator and writer who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

    7. Bill Gates

    Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. He became the richest man in the world about 10 years ago.
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    10. Waren Bufflet

    Warren Buffett is the richest investor in the world

    23. Dale Carnegie

    He was an American writer and also a lecturer who created some famous self-help speeches like the one that you can see in the image on the top. He was born in Maryville, Missouri, the 24th of November in 1888, in the 19th century.

    18. Charles Bukowski

    Heinrich Karl Bukowski, better known as Charles Bukowski. He was an American writer and poet.

    24. Eleanor Rooselvelt

    She was an American political figure, diplomat and activist.
    He made the longest-serving First lady on the United States and later, she was called the "First lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

    11. Seth Godin

    Seth Godin was an American author and former business executive.
    He worked as a boss in the Spinnaker Software.
    He is considered as one of the most important marketing theoric in the 21st century.
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    39. John Ford

    John Frod was an american cinematografic director and producer. He was born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, the 1st of February in 1894. And he died in Culvart City, California, the 31th of Octouber in 1973.

    40.Brian Tracy

    He is a Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development author. He is the author of over eighty books that have been translated into dozens of languages.

    44. William Arthur Ward

    William Arthur Ward was a northamerican writer. He is considered one of the most inspiring writers of all the time.

    42. Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton)

    Zig Ziglar was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. His real name was Hilary Hinton but he is also known as Zig Ziglar.

    41. Henry Ford

    American engineer, inventor, politician and writer.
    He was the founder of ford motor company.

    25. John Powell

    John Powell is known as an English film composer.

    26. Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2,
    1922) was a Scottish -born inventor, scientist, and engineer
    who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical
     telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and
    Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
    Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated
    with work on elocution and speech and both his mother and
    wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His
    research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment
    with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being
    awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone, on March 7,
    1876. Bell considered his invention an intrusion on his real
    work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his
    study.
    Many other inventions marked Bell's later life, including
    groundbreaking work in optical
    telecommunications, hydrofoils, and aeronautics. Although
    Bell was not one of the 33 founders of the National
    Geographic Society, he had a strong influence on the
    magazine while serving as the second president from January
    7, 1898, until 1903.

    27. Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory.

    28. Lilly Walters

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    29. Dr Mardy Grothe

    Personally, I believe that an opinion like this is worth warm and strong applause ... the words touch deeply and the meaning breaks the pressure of restraint. Dr Mardy Grothe has surely been famous in the world of public speakers and influencers. As a psychologist, he surely knows his way around the human mind and soul, feeding our harsh society with inspirational sayings, books and much much more. All of his books reflect his longstanding interest in words, language, and quotations. As some people collect coins, stamps or butterflies, he is a passionate quotation collector, with close to a quarter of a million quotations in his personal collection. Grothe is also the creator of "Dr Mardy's Dictionary of Metaphorical Quotations" (DMDMQ), the world's largest online database of metaphorical quotations.

    30. Maya Angelou

    Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.

    31. Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who was the 3rd president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.

    32. Bruce Lee

    Lee Jun-fan commonly known as Bruce Lee , was a Chinese-American martial artist, actor, director, martial arts instructor and philosopher.

    43. Marcus Porcius Cato

    Marcus Porcius Cato was a Roman soldier, senator and historian. He was the first to write in Latin with his Origins. He came from an ancient Plebeian family who were noted for their military services.

    33. Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

    37. Dr. Mardy Grothe

    Mardy Grothe is a retired psychologist, management consultant, and platform speaker, the author of six books on words and language, the creator of Dr. Mardy's Dictionary of Metaphorical Quotations, and one of the America's most beloved quotation anthologists.

    36. Jim Rohn

    Jim Rohn (Emanuel James Rohn), was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. He was born in September 17, 1930 and died iin December 5, 2009

    38-Margaret Mead

    Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University.

    38. Neville Brody

    Neville Brody (born 23 April 1957) is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director.

    34. Willian Butler Yeats

    William Butler Yeatsan Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

    35- Ralph Valdo Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most widely known man of letters in America, establishing himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer, and an advocate of social reforms.

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