Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
Nancy Duarte
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Ideas are not really alive if they are confined to only one person’s mind.”
“The audience does not need to tune themselves to you—you need to tune your message to them. Skilled presenting requires you to understand their hearts and minds and create a message to resonate with what’s already there.”
“Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there.”
“The enemy of persuasion is obscurity.”
“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw”
“Gussying up slides that have meaningless content is like putting lipstick in a pig.”
“Getting ahead of the next curve requires courage and communication: Courage to determine the next bold move, and communication to keep the troops committed to the value of moving forward. Rallying stakeholders to move together in a common course of action is all part of the innovation and survival process. Leaders at every level in an organization need to be skillful at creating resonance if that organization is to control its own destiny.”
“Changing beliefs changes actions.”
“Your presentation proposes an idea, and you’re asking the audience to adopt and shepherd that idea to positive outcomes. Your idea might be to reshape an organization for the future or to show customers how your product will fill a need they have.”
“You are not the hero who will save the audience; the audience is your hero.”
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Book Keywords:
management, self-improvement
