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

Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition even to close family friends or co workers because theres still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.

We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

I think at the age I'm at, it's really hard for a film career, and I'm at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.

I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon.

The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.

Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.

I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can't wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.

Some people say it's forgive and forget. Nah, I don't know. I say forget about forgiving and just accept - and get the hell out of town.

You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.

False expectations take away joy.

I like challenging myself. I'm not a person who likes not to work.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.