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Simon Maier

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    John F. Kennedy’s phrase: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    It is to the interest of tyrants to cripple and debilitate every species of eloquence. They have no other safety.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    rhetoric (the art of using language as a means to persuade)
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    Conversely, business speakers around the world seemed to be getting worse at making speeches.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    very little care or due diligence about political, business or general public speaking.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    They had little interest in the topic and even less in the audience.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    They felt that speechmaking was an odious duty that got in the way of “proper work”. This view was shared, in the corporate world, by executive advisors and consultants, advertising agency representatives, PR specialists and indeed a whole gamut of people who we always thought would support the value of rhetoric and oratory.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    speeches often fall short of audience aspirations or expectations.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    While many speeches are weak, some are certainly good, but only a few are truly great.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    This prompts the question then, of course: what is it that makes a speech great? And does it matter?
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