Keynote Speaker Quotes & Sayings

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels. — Andrew Cuomo

With this life I give you pride, so that you may know your own worth and the worth of your Clan. — Erin Hunter

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon. — Ann Coulter

Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders. — Stan Slap

Indeed, it was his wonderful mildness chiefly, which not only disarmed me, but unmanned me, as it were. — Herman Melville

Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I've got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama. — Julian Castro

The question is not how to get managers' emotional commitment but why manager's don't give it even if they like their company. — Stan Slap

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else. — Ted Rall

Live the dream awake. — Tia Walker

No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech - "there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing - it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else. — George Eliot

Hadrian snorted at his misplaced humor. "Not giving up yet, Hauk. Besides, you know how much I love to live dangerously. Why else would I share a domicile with Jayne? Risking her wrath is what I do for fun." "You need to find a new hobby, my friend."
-Hadrian & Fain — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Even if we acknowledge the existence of distinct and irreducible perspectives, the wish for a unified conception of the world doesn't go away. If we can't achieve it in a form that eliminates individual perspectives, we may inquire to what extent it can be achieved if we admit them. — Thomas Nagel

Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly. — Joyce Brothers

You've climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now. — Eleanor Brownn

Do your best to maintain an authentic style of writing. If you are a serious person, be serious. If you are a comic, be funny. Do not choose a style or a tone that is different from the person you really are. — Gudjon Bergmann

Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us. — Christopher Babson

I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising. — Jerry Della Femina

Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. — Robert A. Heinlein

Thank God I have a financial planner who is really conservative. — Artie Lange

We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on in future cases is a political standard. — Orrin Hatch

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel
can't get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top
doesn't guide anyone in to home or safe harbor. — Robert Fanney

Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt. — Magnus

The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity. — Stan Slap

I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father [John Kenneth Galbraith]. The leading economists of the Austrian school- including von Hayek and von Haberler - returned for the occasion. And so my father took a moment to reflect on the economic triumphs of the Austrian Republic since the war, which, he said, "would not have been possible without the contribution of these men." They nodded - briefly - until it dawned on them what he meant. They'd all left the country in the 1930s. — James K. Galbraith

Do we follow the road life's placed before us?
Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path.
A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice,
Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny's arms. — Christopher Babson

I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation. — John McAfee

It takes thirty-three days to write a book
only thirty-three days. remember, writers lie for a living. — Darynda Jones

Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too. — Stan Slap

Civilization is a perishable commodity. — Helen Clark MacInnes

Economic recession?" "Well, you see, five million years ago the Galactic economy collapsed, and seeing that custom-built planets are something of a luxury commodity, you see ... — Douglas Adams