Presentation Quotes

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)
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. View quote
Mason Cooley
I have therefore thought that it would be a worthy and very useful thing to reduce the whole of this great art to a complete and orderly form of presentation, and then in different books to lay down and explain the required characteristics of different departments. View quote
Vitruvius
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. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
I am careful with my material and presentation. View quote
Shelley Berman
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. View quote
Stockwell Day
So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down. View quote
Michael Shermer
The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt. (Paulo Freire)
Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two brutally severed carcasses. "A freak show" was how the art critic of the Sunday Telegraph responded to its presentation in the Turner Prize in 1995. For me, the undoubted shock, even disgust provoked by the work is part of its appeal. Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet. View quote
Nicholas Serota
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. View quote
Barbara Kruger
Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. View quote
T. E. Hulme
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. View quote
Bob Woodward
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them. View quote
Gilbert Ryle
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return. View quote
Charles Lamb
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process. View quote
William Winwood Reade
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation. View quote
Paul A. Baran
It's so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There's presentation and there's interpretation and they're so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult. (Garth Stein)
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. View quote
Emma Stone
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
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. View quote
Alessandro Nivola
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. View quote
Buffalo Bill