Presentation Quotes

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon

The entertainment is in the presentation.
John McTiernan

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I’ve got to convince the others.
Freddie Mercury

It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.
Judith Butler

If the Liberals’ law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
Stockwell Day

A liberal to me is one who – and it suits some of the dictionary definitions – is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
Walter Cronkite

In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed – the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander.
Stieg Larsson

Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you’re right. And if you’re really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I’m into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.
Giada De Laurentiis

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.
Alessandro Nivola

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
H. R. Giger

There’s not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
Gerard Way

You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
Harvey Mackay

Because Ernest Lawrence’s award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
Luis Walter Alvarez

A catwalk show is just how it’s done; it’s just what you do – it’s central to the presentation of a collection. It will be a very brave designer who gives up the catwalk entirely in favour of a digital show.
Matthew Williamson

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Walter Dean Myers

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves – and represent you – in a certain way.
Marc Benioff

In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don’t have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
Daniel Boulud

What’s the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful… It taunts you.
Steve Wynn

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I’m thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it’s our front, it’s our face.
Faith Ringgold

Even one’s own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There’s nothing ‘natural’ about one’s home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment – we’re living inside commercials.
J. G. Ballard

New York is the place that made my and other artists’ dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
Yayoi Kusama

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
Shiv Khera

Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives… certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it’s quite controlled.
Alex Lifeson

Even before I became an artist myself, I always cared about my presentation.
Fabolous

My singing wasn’t horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It’s not like I’m a horrible singer that can’t sing. But I don’t have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.
William Hung

 

The Ballon d’Or presentation will be the first time I’ve ever worn black tie!
Mason Mount

I pitched my last children’s show presentation in the mid 1980’s. The era of locally produced children’s shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children’s television.
William Jackson

Well, I think there’s a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
John Major

I couldn’t just be good on the mic. I needed to be good on the mic; I needed to be good in the ring; I need to be good in my presentation; my ring attire need to look good, my appearance. Everything about me needed to be the best. I couldn’t be weak in any area because you’re only as good as your weakest aspect.
Wade Barrett

When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called ‘Project Hollywood 2004’ and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.
Emma Stone

I suppose what’s unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.
Willie Aames

The presentation of young people you often get from Hollywood is too shiny.
Charles Forsman

I can recall an instance where I was in a meeting at work giving a presentation in front of my board of directors. I was taking questions at the end and someone asks, ‘Is that your hair real?’ The man then reached out and started stroking my hair. It was completely bizarre to me.
Franchesca Ramsey

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.
Brian Eno

I’ve seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn’t understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.
Simon Baker

The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn’t teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.
Sherry Turkle

I’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
Bob Woodward

It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in ‘Mea Maxima Culpa.’
Alex Gibney

Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.
KRS-One

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
James Gleick

I don’t believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don’t think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.
Errol Morris

I first thought maybe I’d do a banjo presentation record, where I’d play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them.
Steve Martin

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!
Zig Ziglar

I feel like I’m constantly fighting against my exterior, or this exterior presentation of myself, because of how I look or perhaps because of who I’m with.
Amber Heard

I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money – not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.
Cat Cora

America’s got amazing presentation, especially New York – the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
Watkin Tudor Jones

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
Barbara Kruger

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.
Maximillian Degenerez

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
Warren Zevon

I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It’s going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.
Alton Brown

When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don’t worry if your presentation isn’t perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.
Jack Canfield

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
Learned Hand

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
John Langdon

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don’t translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.
Mike McCue

I actually began my career by convincing my parents to let me be an actress when I was 12 with a PowerPoint presentation describing acting and my goals.
Sydney Sweeney

What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.
Azim Premji

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.
Hjalmar Schacht

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

Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.
Sophia Amoruso

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
Hari Kunzru

Some people rehearse to a point where they’re robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn’t take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
Nancy Duarte

My husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon, and you look at, like, the presentation of the food, and it’s ridiculous. It looks like a Mondrian painting or something. Everything looks like a bunch of little Hello Kitty erasers when you eat a little bento box in Japan. It’s so precise and beautiful and processed and neat.
Ali Wong

If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it’s all about melody. It’s all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can’t understand a word of what they say.
Zac Brown

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
Buffalo Bill

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That’s the whole vibe. That’s the point – is that it’s great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it’s a presentation. There’s a showmanship about it. And that’s why I wanted to be a pop star.
Adam Lambert

Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.
Keith Barry

I developed a theory that, in many ways, the early ‘Andy Griffith’ episodes especially were an awful lot like a Capra movie. They were a lot like ‘Mr. Deeds’ or a lot like ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ in tone and presentation.
Ron Howard

People probably think I’m cute because I have dimples and am friendly and always smiling. But beauty is different. In Chinese, people say I have chi ze, which means aura or a strong sense of presentation. It’s not about my look.
Liu Wen

My parents wouldn’t let me shave it earlier, so I made a PowerPoint presentation to convince them. I strategically put pictures of bald women in there.
Emma Gonzalez

The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing ‘Saturday Night Live’ or ‘David Letterman.’ One of those shows.
Rivers Cuomo

I know, to some, I am always a little over the top, but that’s just who I am, and I’d rather be that way than monotone or less than scintillating in my presentation.
Mauro Ranallo

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director’s imagination, the result will be great.
Vijay Sethupathi

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human – and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.
John P. Kotter

I am still working on patter and presentation.
Paul Daniels

When we did ‘Endgame,’ we were all hunched over and making the craziest sounds. Then I graduated and went right into auditioning for ‘Gossip Girl’ and things like that, where, as an actress, you’re required to act from the neck up and, from the neck down. It’s a presentation of your birthday-suit self.
Betty Gilpin

As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on the presentation of moral issues in various Greek and Roman tragedies.
Martha Nussbaum

Obviously, I like very beautiful food, because I think as delicious as food has to taste, it also has to look very beautiful – the process of presentation is very important.
Zac Posen

Digital presentation is just television in public; we’re all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
Quentin Tarantino

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.
Mike Davidson

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
Edward Tufte

What this means is that we shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
Edward Tufte

I’m not talking ideas, or even presentation. It’s like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player – like your skin or your heart.
Keith Jarrett

You don’t normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that’s it.
Sydney Pollack

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there’s generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.
John M. Ford

I am careful with my material and presentation.
Shelley Berman

You don’t know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don’t talk to you. There’s very little interaction.
Helmut Jahn

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.
James Lafferty

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
Mason Cooley

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
Lion Feuchtwanger

‘Shkoff’ is to eat. ‘Shkiaff’ is to slap. Like, ‘Gettouttahere I’m gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,’ or, ‘Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.’
Nadia Giosia

When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there’s some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: ‘If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?’
Joel Robuchon

I think everybody’s got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.
Marilyn Manson

When I’m acting, I’m in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I’m on stage, there’s no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it’s just who I am.
Harry Connick, Jr.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn’t vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.
Patti Smith

It isn’t that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.
James Wolcott

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
David Byrne

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.
David Mamet

The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you’re on some sort of presentation platform whenever you’re out on the streets.
Tony Kushner

I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
Brie Larson

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.
Douglas Booth

Sure, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.
Lawrence Bender

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on – from newspapers to lemonade to ‘TV Guide.’ I knew how to make a presentation.
Michael Ovitz

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
Brian Greene

I’m a sensationalist. I’m a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to – if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.
Bill O’Reilly

Any adaptation – and I’ve done three in my career. I did ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘Hugo’ and ‘Coriolanus.’ It’s important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.
John Logan

My mode of presentation is short-form video – basically I create fast cut, impassioned ‘idea explainers’ that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.
Jason Silva

The funny thing is that when you have any form of presentation to your band, meaning you have the foresight to see outside of your creativity, you have a bigger vision.
Nikki Sixx

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach… love is close by… and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation… everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
Dave Sitek

I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic.
Stefan Sagmeister

I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong – telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.
Tina Brown

Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It’s a great stress reliever for me. It’s great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it’s things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up.
Scott Bakula

I came rather late to film. I’ve done an awful lot of theater before – before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and – and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
Ian Mckellen

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
Ken Stott

As much as I enjoy TV, I’ve always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific – you’re talking all the time.
Marv Albert

I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I’m cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on my polka-dotted apron. I might don a smart blazer if I am doing a work presentation. If I play a rock show, there may indeed be glitter and fishnets involved. It’s my way of saying, ‘Thank you, I am glad to be here.’
Corin Tucker

There’s something about YouTube, where you’re not being anybody but yourself. You have the opportunity to start as yourself from the very beginning. From the very first video, you choose what you say, and you choose what’s right and wrong for your presentation of yourself.
Tyler Oakley

There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro’s life as totally divorced from the Caucasian’s or the Caucasian’s from the Negro.
John Garfield

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom, and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits. I was the type of person that would show a Powerpoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
Brie Larson

A museum’s meticulous presentation – exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature – creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
Peter Landesman

I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, ‘I met a writer today.’ I want them to say, ‘I am a writer.’
Doreen Cronin

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.
Sally Mann

There’s no question there’s enough information available to all of us in this society for darn near anything. The problem is the quality of the information, the presentation of it… You shouldn’t have to be a lawyer.
Sherrod Brown

I promise you that when the circumstances arise where I have a difference on policy or on presentation, I have – I can tell you in my heart, I know – I would have no hesitation, were I privileged to be vice president, to walk into the president’s office, close the door, and share my heart.
Mike Pence

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.
Jeanne Marie Laskas

The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.
Ava DuVernay

I admire my fellow judge Paul Hollywood enormously, though we often argue. He believes presentation and uniformity are paramount; I’m more interested in taste. I don’t mind if one bun is smaller than the others, or if there’s a little pastry cracking, though I don’t want a soggy bottom.
Mary Berry

A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don’t want to see the presentation.
Brad Feld

The centerpiece of the Bush administration’s case for going to war in Iraq was Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, six weeks before the invasion.
Peter Bergen

The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui