Nancy Duarte Quotes

My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

Nancy Duarte

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BestStartThinkThinkingAdvice

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

Joe Manchin

GreatPeopleMeSayingCareYou

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

Menander

GoodSayingBetterKnowSayOthers

I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.

Megan Fox

UpSpotlightCravingHappenedOnce

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play.

Robert Pinsky

I AmPeoplePlayAdmireWayTrade

Never let a trend get in the way of creating a great outfit for yourself.

Stacy London

GreatYourselfOutfitCreatingWay

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

Rita Ora

IntegrityVisionMindWorldCare

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.

Michael Korda

BetterTelevisionDebateNobodyPoor

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.

Jason Bateman

ManPeopleYouPlaySayWant

While I was in 'Inadmissible Evidence' at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shaftesbury Avenue. I grabbed one of the men, and when the police arrived, they put both me and him against a wall until they worked out which of us was the criminal.

Douglas Hodge

MenPoliceMeWallHimOut

You could look at something a hundred times from space, but the next time you come around the world, suddenly it's very different and gorgeous-looking, just because of the change of weather or the angle of the sun.

Chris Hadfield

ChangeTimeSpaceSunWeatherWorld

If I were living in France, I'd vote for Jacques Chirac, despite the fact that he can't seem to keep his hands out of the cash till.

Pim Fortuyn

HandsVoteLivingOutCashSeem

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.

Sydney Pollack

StandFeelLaughBackNeverAlways

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