Active Listening — Participation in a conversation with another by means of repeating words and phrases or giving approving or disapproving nods

What are the four delivery methods?

Networking

Reading off the top of the head without any type of preparation.

What is the most common type of presentation given by a funeral director?

Everything written down from beginning to end. No interaction with the audience and more focused on finishing the speaker agenda.

What are examples of a funeral director speaking from a manuscript?

Undue burden. Small notes in hand but interacting the with audience. Doesn't have the intended effect because the early message is being unprepared if delivery is poor

Speech planned in advance, but delivered in a direct spontaneous way

Which type of delivery is most common for instructors?

Adrenaline is up and prepared to present

Weaken the performance, overwhelming

If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people.

I have two children - could I ever choose between them? Never. That's what 'Sophie's Choice' was about. If you have 50 children, you don't love one less.

I've always wanted to do an adult cartoon, because I want a job where you can just drive up in your pajamas, have a cup of tea and not even get dressed, and you've gone to work for the day. What a great gig!

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands.

You cant just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work take the risks.

The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community.

It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me.

There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.

When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.

I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often.

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

Perfection is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe. If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.

In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content.

Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

You were the coast and I was the sea, and no matter how much I tried to take you make you mine, you refused to become a part of me.

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.