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February 10, 2010

FOCUS: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Speaking in Public
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs, commencement address, Stanford, June, 2005

“Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” - Steve Jobs

On Speaking in Public
"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance." - Bette Midler, The Rose

"I try to follow the advice that a university president once gave to a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but nobody expects you to say much.'" - Anthony Lake

"In seeking wisdom the first step is silence, the second: listening, the third: remembering, the fourth: practicing, the fifth: teaching others." - Rabbi Shlomo ibn-Gavirol

"Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought." - Karl Kraus

"The louder he talks of honor, the faster we count our spoons." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I learn by comparing the speech I was going to give with the one I gave, and then comparing that to the one I'd give if I could do it again." - Larry Wilson

Carmine Gallo, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs at Macworld 2008


Steve Jobs, Commencement Address, Stanford University, 2005


From CIO Magazine
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