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

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, 'You need to do something.' So you do need the breath of scepticism, not cynicism, breathing on them.

For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.

I've got a great husband who's very good with Orla - she's a real daddy's girl.

I haven't skied or snowboarded or anything like that.

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.

Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

Umbrella cant stop rain but make us to stand in rain. Confidence may not bring success but it gives power to face any challenge.

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

A couple of my teammates have the rare Ford F650 Super Truck, and they're kitted out with everything - even flat-screen TVs for movies and video-game systems in the back.

I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.

Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.