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

Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.'

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

What you learn is your personal treasure. No one can take it away from you.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.