Networking — The process of building and maintaining informal relationships with people whose acquaintance could bring about business opportunities.

What are the four delivery methods?

Active Listening

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

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

I hardly ever remember my dreams.

Give her books where other people did all the running around and courting it was far easier to read about such matters than to experience them herself.

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

Ultimately we actually all belong to only one tribe to Earthlings.

That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

I'm always the person who's taking everyone else's kid and putting them on my hip, so I've kinda always been a mama.

I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

A million people can tell the bride that she is beautiful but the only time she will listen is when its said by the man she loves.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Exercise is a dirty word. Everytime I say it, I wash out my mouth with chocolate.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that.

There's a very long and consistent track record on the part of Hillary Clinton, and it's not been favorable to women, to children, to the cause of peace, justice, and a sustainable climate.

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really life altering. There are basic principles on how to craft an engaging story and he covers them well. He's got a book out, 'Story,' that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in improve their storytelling.