Top 144 Presenting Quotes

But I’m a historian. I wasn’t interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

There is no prescribed route into presenting.

I think, if I’m doing my job correctly, I’m presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that’s what the best art is supposed to do. It’s not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.

If people are hiding their sexuality, they don’t really get their full selves, so you can sometimes feel like you’re presenting sort of like a fogged version of yourself.

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

I’m used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

I’ve always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

I have always been interested in following the technology that I feel are presenting themselves as true industry and innovation.

Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.

As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

We need to articulate luxury differently. We live in the world of the ‘like’ culture. As a society, we’re consuming so much imagery, it’s like gorging on sugar, and the only way to find depth in a ‘like’ culture is by presenting the unknown.

Just watching this woman owning the TV, there is no doubt that the reason I wanted to get into TV presenting is down to Cilla.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.

I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view.

Conceptually, I’ve always gravitated towards arrangements that weren’t just presenting one idea. I like to look at my songs as having a main part, an interlude, and almost like another song at the end.

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

The value of an aware is inextricably linked to the character of the organization presenting it.

I have no choice in what direction my music goes, honestly, as all I get is what I’m given. I start writing the songs, and they start presenting themselves the way they want to be heard.

Social media is all about presenting the happiest, most positive version of yourself to the world. I’m here to say that we all have bad days and that it’s easy to feel isolated – but the truth is that beneath the sassy facade all girls suffer from the same insecurities.

When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming… I feel it’s extremely wrong.

I’m reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it’s an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It’s become my habit. I just carry on.

I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing – my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

As an Old Navy style attendant, I’m all about upgrading your bare basics and presenting them to your customer as basics you need to have in your wardrobe.

When I started presenting ‘Scrapheap Challenge,’ I was rubbish at tuning V8 engines.

I work independently of the director, and to some extent, that’s actually a big relief to them. When I come to them in post-production, they’re tired and over-budget. What can be better to them than presenting a full score totally gift-wrapped?

I did everything the wrong way round. I started in an odd place, with the wrong skill set and arguably worked backwards. I began my television career in Hong Kong, making longer format films from around Asia, then I went to the other extreme – presenting local London news.

I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

There are many people who know nothing of a world in which we take the reality of the ‘other’ seriously. I’m running on that platform: other people in other countries are really, really real, and there has to be a way of presenting their reality that is not condescending to them or about our psycho-social needs.

Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

‘Doing your own thing’ and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God’s will can be done.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

Head and neck injuries are what parents thinking about letting their children play tackle football should be thinking about, talking about, and demanding answers about, from any coach presenting himself as a worthy custodian for their child’s introduction to tackle football.

We’ll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

In reality, girls make mistakes, and it’s not fair to keep presenting this narrative that they’re perfect.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who has produced my earlier films, is still a part of ‘PK’ and is presenting it. He is not a hands-on producer – he used to put a certain amount in the bank and give me the cheque book.

I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

I’ve done quite a few adverts. I’ve also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

I’d like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse – news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

The mirror is a powerful tool because it forces you to deal with yourself on a deeper level. Conceptually, paintings are like mirrors. They’re an expression from the artist: ‘This is how I view the world – I’m presenting it to you.’

‘Wait a Minute,’ which I consider my expose, came from a place of someone asking me to make a decision: basically presenting me with an ultimatum and me just feeling the need to just lay it out on the table.

A commission presenting evidence doesn’t do a Jedi mind trick and make state legislators in some state suddenly pass a bill.

When I was younger, I didn’t know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn’t really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor.

I had three brilliant years on ‘The X Factor,’ and it was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had. ‘Strictly’ is completely different; it’s a whole different show – I’m dancing. It’s not presenting. But this is one of the best things I’ve done – ever.

Eventually, the state’s funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.

I want to educate my daughter on presenting herself in the media and in the world.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

It’s important to recognise that opposing racism isn’t just about presenting an alternative set of values; it’s about looking at how the far right play on people’s hardships in order to nurture a sense of enmity between white people and those racialised as migrants.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Housing is predominantly presented as a generational issue: millennials aren’t able to get on the property ladder in the same way their parents were. But while it’s true that intergenerational fairness is an issue, this way of presenting the housing crisis glosses over much.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God’s Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.

Presenting the American songbook as a living, breathing entity that’s expanding all the time is very important.

I rarely come away from presenting the ‘Today’ programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.

The television presenting I have done has been quite sporadic, and it’s normally only lasted a few weeks or months, so it would be really fun to get a gig that was a bit longer.

It’s the hardest job in telly as a newbie. You’re writing standup every night on your own and presenting live TV. It’s like a really tough apprenticeship in front of two million people.

The way I’m portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it’s partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I’m digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.

The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.

I always had a real love of children’s presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.

Why, I ask, isn’t it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

Home gigs can be hard because it’s an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I’m doing this job which is not quite acting – part of it is me, part performance. You’re presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Sadly, some seem unable to accept that maybe what America needs is someone who will level with voters, and who isn’t shy about presenting things as they are, not like we would necessarily like them to be. That is no truer than on U.S. college campuses.

Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it’s exciting, it can go well, it can go badly… the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn’t really affect anyone’s life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people’s moods for a whole week.

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they try to question traditional notions of masculinity and the sort of toxic nature of traditional ways of presenting masculinity.

My dad always made a big thing about having well-cut suits. It’s partly a cultural thing, but for him, looking sharp and presenting yourself well was very, very important.

For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It’s about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them.

Presenting football is something that I love to do. I’m very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC’s flagship shows.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and ‘Star Treks’ or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.

If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there’s very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.

In the Children’s Zoo, Enrichment meant presenting the goats with a trash can smeared with peanut butter or dangling keys at the end of a broomstick in front of the cow. The goats would knock their heads around the inside of the can and emerge giddy, peanut butter drunk.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

The thing that I’ve learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there’s just no point in sharing.

Around the courthouse when defense lawyers are chatting about their cases, the only question they ask each other is can you put your guy on the stand? Those conversations always assume the defendant is guilty. The question is just about the degree of difficulty in presenting a defense.

The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it’s like a party.

When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune system in a way that the immune system recognizes the important elements of the microbe and makes an immune response, both an antibody response and a cellular response, to ultimately contain the microbe.

Good candidates can arrive at the binary search tree as the right path in a few minutes, and then take 10-15 minutes working through the rest of the problem and the other roadblocks I toss out. But occasionally I get a candidate who ‘intuitively understands’ trees and can visualize the problem I’m presenting.

TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It’s very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I’ve done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don’t think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

It’s still acceptable for male presenters to appear elderly but not their female counterparts. You will never find an old woman and a young man presenting combo.

I’ve always wanted to try presenting and see what it was like, and you know, it could be a huge mistake.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

I always figure hey, look, I’m not a rock star, I’m an actor. I’m somebody who’s meant to be other people and I’m not meant to be here representing myself. I’m happier when I’m presenting myself as other characters.

TV presenting isn’t the hardest job in the world, and I’ve done all right financially out of it.

My favorite comedians are just presenting an argument, and they’re doing it in a funny way.

I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.

I’m after joining the ‘This Morning’ family, so I’m going to be doing a bit of presenting. I’m going to be taking some phone calls, like an agony aunt type thing, I’m going to be taking on some challenges, they want me to do a skydive and drift a car and things.

I’m a believer in presenting something that is worth paying to see. I’ve always felt lucky in that the work that pleases me pleases other people as well.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples’ lives go by. Or whatever lives they’re presenting.

I have always been open about the way I live my life, because hiding skeletons in the closet and presenting a picture-perfect image is not my style.

Presenting a show is totally different to what I’m used to. People think it’s easy but it’s much more difficult than they think. But, by the end, I will be a pro.

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you’re presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

If Kanye was not in the equation, I literally wouldn’t even be here. His music pushed hip-hop – the man is a master at taking a complex idea and presenting it in a way that is accessible for everyone.

If I’m on the road for Random House, I’m presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it’s based in a real fandom. You’re presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They’ll come up and ask: ‘so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?’

There is an actor’s responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don’t pay attention to the lyric.

I decided to host a couple of the ‘In The Life’ programs. And I did that really as a result of meeting a lot of young gay people in the Midwest who really had nothing to relate to. At least I felt this program is presenting them with some options.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

As a creative agency, the film industry is thinking great subjects, presenting them wonderfully well, and giving opportunity to new faces each day.

Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

If you’re a director presenting a new idea, and the person who can judge whether or not it goes ahead is in the room, that makes you somewhat defensive.

We like to challenge ourselves, and having new material and presenting it to the world is fun and exciting and fresh.

I’m painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I’m hopefully presenting them in a way that’s universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.

I think accurately presenting a trans character means not presenting them as perfect – I think there’s been a pressure to do this with trans characters. They can have no flaws because they must represent the entire trans community.

I’ve been a huge fan of ‘Dating In The Dark’ and I’m totally excited to be presenting the third supersized series.

When you are in a long-running series you don’t look outside it because you don’t really need to do much else. When you don’t have that you are much more open to offers, like presenting Hell’s Kitchen or making a motoring show in Madagascar with Mariella Frostrup.

I don’t think it’s not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman – presenting yourself in a certain way.

I say throwaway, jokey things. When you’re young-looking and you are presenting something that has gravitas you can’t look down your nose, but when David Dimbleby does it, it’s OK.

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened – it’s just been intensified.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It’s more like going to a Jacuzzi.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, ‘Why have you gone into comedy?’

Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too – and this may seem kind of odd – Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

It’s like, if you have a story that’s already great, then the thing that we can shift is how we’re telling that story, how we’re presenting it to the world.

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I’m 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, ‘It was okay, I did all right.’

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue – I repeat myself over and over again with this – to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we’ve got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we’re not always presenting the same thing.

Children, presenting at our border, who are fleeing violence, who are fleeing prosecution, who are fleeing terrible situations is not a crisis. We feel that it is our responsibility to humanely approach this circumstance, and make sure they are treated and put in conditions that are safe.

To me, sex is sex and I don’t think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up a few heads out there, including my own.

With music, you’re really showing someone a piece of your soul. You’re saying, ‘This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I’m performing this. This is how I’m presenting it to you.’ There’s something really scary about that, but there’s also something next-worldly about it, too.

Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.

I feel that a film or a play presenting homosexuality does not necessarily have to come with a message for the audience. It is a way of life, everyone should be treated equally.

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

My job in MTV was my first real presenting job and I had no real idea what I was doing, but you kind of learn just by doing.

In the presenting area, there’s nothing that really sets me apart from anyone else. It’s something I enjoy but I was never going to set the world on fire.

I think that with Bob Dylan around, we’re living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It’s that level.