Presentation Quotes

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
Mason Cooley

Thinking, Rules, Logic

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

Everybody, Listen, Looks

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon

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

Life, Power, Try

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

Others, Convince, Lavish

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

Work, Live, Idea

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

May, Another, Knows

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.

Mind, Different, Place

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

Music, Great, Why

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

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

Home, Important, May

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
Patti Smith

Music, Poetry, Rock

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

Fighting, Culture, Street

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

Great, Food, Eyes

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

End, Different, Same

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

Story, Name, Television

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

Money, Food, Nice

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

Though, York, Whenever

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

Education, Sex, Law

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

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

Kids, Unique, Scripture

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

Beauty, Talk, Expect

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

Home, Stage, Studio

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

Truth, Full, Style

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

Another, Eve, Normally

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

Understand, Broken, Honest

'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

Food, Forget, Give

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

Work, Mother, Mistakes

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

Honor, Movement, Highest

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

Needed, Heritage, Visual

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