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

What are the four delivery methods?

Networking

Active Listening

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

I think videos are really hard. I'm yet to be happy with a video. It's very weird watching yourself on camera, which I guess I'm going to have to get used to. I love the thought of being in them, but it's one thing to say that and another to actually do it.

Desires are only the lack of something and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none or very slight ones.

When my father didn’t have my hand he had my back.

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Every cloud has a silver lining

When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

I am ready.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like a fire which needs oxygen to continue... when you see there is no oxygen, things change.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Bantam has an incredible team working on my books, and I'm so thrilled that the art department is so amazing, since those covers are the 'face' of my stories!

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Building a great tradition is more rewarding than simply having one.