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BEGINNING TALK REMARKS
(Excerpt From Part One)
I am pleased to greet you tonight
Thank you for granting me the honor to speak
I would like to set the tone for what is going to be talked about
First let me say it is a delight to have the opportunity to speak before this gathering
The first order of business is
Let me throw out the starting pitch by saying
Here is a quick summary of what we will be discussing
The subject matter for tonight’s talk is
Permit me to start on this positive note by saying
This needs said right off and right up front
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak
To get the ball rolling
The initial topic I would like us to sink our teeth in is
The beginning thought I want to offer on my topic is
I will begin by talking about the business at hand
There is a lot of baggage to deal with so let us get started
This is the focus of my message
I would like to hopefully start by presenting these thoughts in a way that can be understood
For my entrance remarks
Without further adieu, let us begin
The particular area of interest I would like to begin with and talk about
Let us quickly get to the matter at hand
The theme I would like to address first is
For openers, let us start here
The matter I want to speak on this evening
I would like to start out by dabbling on this point
This is a special moment for me to speak
Let me make an emotional beginning statement
I want to say in beginning
My beginning target for tonight is
I thank my host for that flattering introduction
Let us get underway
I feel a special honor and privilege to be here before you this evening
There needs to be a word or two said about my background before delving into the discussion
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Beginning Statement --- First Subject --- Introductory Comments --- Entrance Remarks --- For Openers --- First Off --- Set The Mood --- Starting Pitch --- Maiden Speech --- First Move --- Commence The Discussion --- Get The Ball Rolling --- To Get Underway ---Phrase Helps:
THAT IS A GOOD POINT
(Excerpt From Part One)
That is a solid point
A well stated point has been made, was everyone listening?
You have effectively sabotaged my position with that point
A worthy point has been touched on
Point well spoken and well taken
That is an astute analysis
You have made a legitimate argument
You are hitting on a valid point
Your point was beautifully expressed
What a good thinking response
That was brilliantly put
Let me praise you for such an enlightened point
I find your approach to this issue very refreshing
That is a good convincing rendering
What a great thought
That is a fantastic point
I believe that is a good point to bring out
You bring an excellent point to the discussion
There is a lot of merit to that point
You have produced good criticism on that point
A wisely declared rendering
You make a very effective point
That is an attractive thought
What a powerful argument you have made
I think your point is well taken
That point is worth noting
You are on the right track with that well balanced statement-
A very perceptive comment
Your excellent point has been taken into consideration and duly noted
Thanks for sharing that insightful comment
The point currently raise is well grounded
At this time it is a legitimate point to raise
I believe this point to be a rock solid one
Thank you for that degree of insight
It would be very hard to shoot down such a good point
That is an interesting observation
That is a very good point, may I borrow it?
I believe it is most appropriate at this time to point that out, yes
A very constructive point indeed
That is a fine point to bring in here
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Good Scholarship --- Well Reasoned --- Of Great Worth --- Well Stated -- - Beautifully Expressed --- Well Grounded --- Rock Solid --- Greatly Spoken Powerfully Impressive --- Refreshingly Articulated --- Attractive Thought --- Insightful Rendering --- Well Balanced ---Phrase Helps:
OPENING THE FLOOR TO QUESTIONS
(Excerpt From Part One)
Anyone care to solicit an opinion?
Are there fair and worthy questions out there to share?
I will field any questions or comments.
Anyone else want to put in their two cents?
What about other reactions out there?
Do we have different viewpoints and thoughts?
Feel free to speak up if anyone is in disagreement.
That raises an interesting question, any takers?
Whom among you has enough courage of their convictions to speak up?
Does anyone have questions or comments?
Would someone out there in the peanut gallery care to venture an opinion on this?
Are there any who care to offer a better explanation?
I would be happy to walk you through it should there be questions.
What about other positions on this?
Speak up should anyone have questions or problems with that view.
I would like to have someone else jump in on this.
Would anyone like to address this issue?
Are there other voices that want to be heard on this?
I have never run or hid from any question, so ask and fire away if a person feels the need.
How are we doing thus far, questions?
Can we add to, or take away from this?
If anyone has any questions or a different point of view feel free to interrupt.
Anyone want to take a shot at this?
Any closing comments?
Are there pressing questions on this?
Would someone else like to share a comment or two?
Are there killer questions out there to wound me with?
Who would care to respond?
To be fair, I think it is time to open the floor to differing comments.
How about some audience participation?
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Additional Inquiries? --- Solicit an Opinion? --- Other Positions? --- Further Debate? --- Dissenting Views? --- Pressing Queries? --- Closing Questions? --- Additional Comments? --- Everyone Understand? --- Any Questions? --- Other Views? ---Phrase Helps:
I DO NOT HAVE AN ANSWER
(Excerpt From Part One)
It will take a wiser person than I to answer that.
I do not know, but here are some of the possible answers to that question.
Personally that question has not been satisfactorily resolved, but this is what I have presently.
May I let that question remain on the records of the unanswered?
I offer no human technique of explanation for that.
That question has preoccupied me without resolution.
I do not have full possession of the knowledge that would answer that question.
There is no easy solution or pat answers to that question.
I do not have an answer, but the modern world is knocking at the door for one.
That question is not as complicated as the answer.
I cannot give you chapter and verse on that.
There is not one set answer to that question.
I have not captured an answer to that question yet.
The answer to that question has eluded me thus far.
There are a lot of things I cannot answer and that question is one of them.
The answer to that is not in my territorial thinking.
I am afraid I do not have an answer, but would be happy to speculate on some possible ones.
I do not believe there is a good yes or no response on that yet.
I draw a blank page to that question.
Let me think about that question and get back to you.
Although a complete satisfactory answer to that question has not been personally found, I will let you know if or when one surfaces.
There is not a good answer for the question you have raised.
I am still in the process of developing a position on that.
I have no immediate cure to that question.
I cannot think of a plausible answer for that question.
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Draw A Blank --- No Immediate Cure --- Undeveloped Position --- Mystery To Me --- No Logical Explanation --- Speculative At Best --- No Easy Solution --- No Set Answer --- Remains A Riddle --- Nothing But Conjecture --- Opinion Only --- Nothing Definitive ---Phrase Helps:
MANY WAYS TO UNDERSTAND
(Excerpt From Part One)
There are differing schools of thought on that.
That is one opening to multiple doors of perception.
One can attach numerous messages to any view.
There are alternative explanations to this.
Let me suggest a possible explanation, but not necessarily the only one.
There can be several evolutionary areas of understanding here.
It is important to realize there is not one way of thinking about things on any given matter.
There are a variety of legitimate positions and approaches.
There are many angles of vision on this that can be brought to bear with great profit.
All interpretations here are equally valid.
There are many stances one can take on that.
This could be read with many ways of interpretation.
There are a variety of visions here that can be valuable.
There is not a wrong way of looking at this.
I find a lot of room here for many differences of opinion in looking at this.
There are other very important arguments to be made on all sides of the issue.
That is one way of many to describe it.
There are other views available which also contain merit.
I know a number of valuable levels of perception on this.
I believe there is more than one side to that notion.
Humans differ widely in opinions about all manner of topics.
That is a narrow line that we all have to individually interpret.
There is room for disagreement on any view.
There are many different ways to perceive this.
One way here is not better than another, it is just different.
There are always going to be multiple interpretations.
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Multiple Visions --- Many Sides --- Differing Thoughts --- Other Perceptions --- Variety Of Interpretations --- Varying Opinions --- Additional Explanations --- Numerous Personal Agenda --- Different Avenues Of Thought ---PHRASE HELPS:
I DO NOT KNOW IT ALL
(Excerpt From Part One)
No one has arrived at all knowledge, it is an ongoing intellectual quest.
My thinking is fragmentary on this like everyone else.
I have not drained all the knowledge from life’s well yet.
I do not know the meaning of all things.
My understanding on everything is not in its perfect state.
I am as all mortals, not all the answers are going to be right.
I am not all knowing.
I do not have the key to every doorway of knowledge.
I do not have a prescription for every earthly misery.
I do not have rock solid answers to everything in life.
I do not promise to have all the answers.
I do not have all knowledge on every subject.
I have my doubts like everyone else behind closed doors.
I do not have a monopoly on absolute truth.
I know my intellectual limits and accept them.
My mind is not yet in its final process of thought.
I am still in a state of learning and enhancing knowledge.
I do not have absolute clarity on all understanding and knowledge.
I have no way of completely knowing that.
I do not have all knowledge to every mystery in life.
I am not privy to all of the universe’s information.
I do not possess supernatural intelligence in every area.
I am not all knowing into every matter of life.
Speculation does not account for total knowledge.
My discernment has its limitations as does everyone.
These mistakes in judgment will continue to be made as long as I continue to have human interaction.
I am a human animal with limited knowledge.
Even with deep study, no one will ever know it all.
The wisest of the wise will never have all the facts.
I cannot promise to know that in its totality.
I will never have an answer to all your questions.
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Not All Knowing --- Not Always Right --- Imperfect Understanding --- Cannot Solve Everything --- Limited Knowledge --- Human Deficiencies --- Still Learning --- Imperfect Discernment --- Restricted To Known Sources --- Still Found Lacking --- Only Know A Small Portion ---PHRASE HELPS:
I AM NOT LISTENING
(Excerpt From Part Two)
Your words are falling on deaf ears.
Sorry, but I do not want to listen.
For some reason I am not hearing you.
I am not an interested party to your talk.
I am keeping a closed ear.
It is hard to listen to what you are saying.
There is static on the line and I cannot hear you.
I refuse to listen to your speech.
As you can see, I am not hanging on your every word.
I am totally deaf to what you are saying.
These fingers in my ears are there for a purpose.
As of now, my ears are closed.
You should know I have no desire to hear that kind of talk.
I am not zeroed into what you are saying.
You do not need to go on because I am not listening.
Tell it to the sandman because my ears are now plugged.
My attention meter has run out of coins.
The door is now closed and I cannot hear a word you say.
I am tuning you out now.
We are no longer on the same station.
It will do no good for me to pretend to listen to it.
You may as well drop it because I have shut you out starting now.
There is nothing more you can say to get me to listen.
Please forgive me, but I cannot give you a listen on that.
My ability to listen to you has run out.
I am not interested in listening.
My ears are not paying heed to what you are saying.
I am out of the mood to listen any further.
No way am I going to listen to anymore of that garbage.
I have shut out the message you are trying to relay.
I have turned you off.
I cannot hear what you are saying.
My ears are not tuned into what you are trying to say.
There is interference on the line.
No offense, but I am just not interested enough in the subject matter to listen.
There are too many other matters on my mind to give that a fair hearing.
Your words have too much pain to listen.
I am not going to listen anymore.
I have just stepped into my sound proof booth.
I have put up the brick wall to this discussion.
I am simply not going to listen to anymore.
PERCEPTION IS REALITY
(Excerpt From Part Three)
We all have our own set way of looking at the world.
Our viewpoint is based on the way we see things.
We become what we are taught.
Whatever you believe affects you.
How we see reality is based on our experiences.
You are what you think.
We radiate what we believe and think.
Everyone regards the world from his or her point of view.
Perceptions are influenced by our social surroundings.
You are what you believe.
There is nothing real outside our perception of reality.
Your belief controls your experience of life.
Our perceptions and beliefs have great power over our lives.
The power beliefs have over our lives is incredible.
What we focus on the most is what we become.
Beliefs and perceptions clone the way we behave.
Everyone sees the world in a particular way that is relevant to them.
We see things the way we want to see them.
Our thought process creates our reality.
Humans like to only put the things that are comfortable in their belief systems.
Our perception is what lies in our brain.
Belief systems are no good if we have the wrong outlook.
Perception is not necessarily reality.
People believe things because it validates their own perception experience.
Most people reflect the ideas and values of their parents.
What we think, so we become.
All human perceptions are limited to race, gender, and culture.
We always look at it from our viewpoint.
The human mind rejects what it cannot believe.
Beliefs effect our vision on everything.
One tends to hear what one’s beliefs confirm.
Our perception in the way we see things is our reality.
Humans damn what they do not understand.
What rules your mind, you are.
BE STRONG - DO NOT QUIT
(Excerpt From Part Three)
We need to have it in our character to come back from diversity.
One does not drown by falling in the water, one drowns by staying there.
We must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain.
When things seem at their worse, that is when you should not quit.
It is the tough things in life that make us strong.
One has to be able to take a good punch in life and keep getting up off the hard mat ---
Obstacles are steps to overcoming.
The closer one gets to the pinnacle, the steeper the grade.
The seed grows in the valley, not on the mountain top.
Tough times make for tough people.
We grow by the things we overcome.
I have lost the round, but not the fight ---
Be like a sturdy tree, bend but do not break.
Hold on and stay the course.
Just enduring the struggle will yield its own rewards.
The last mile of the race is always the hardest.
Hardship can either paralyze you or make you grow.
I think it is an old proverb that says, “I think I will lay down and bleed for a while and get back up later to fight another day”.
The hardest times can be the most rewarding in the learning experience.
Be too determined to admit defeat.
Do not quit and turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.-
You can lay there and do nothing, or you can get up and do something.
Down, but not for the ten count.
You have not failed until you have quit.
Refuse to wave the white flag.
You may have lost a battle, but not the war.
A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.
Our characters are deepened through hard times.
Keep dedicated to the task and do not give up.
I may not win the fight, but I am determined to go the distance and endure to the end.
Beaten, but not defeated.
Be persistently determined.
PAIN - WOUNDS - SUFFERINGS
(Excerpt From Part Three)
Many times the greatest lessons that one learns in life are through their sufferings.
Two things can come out of the fire of suffering, either gold or ashes, it is up to you.
When things get real bad, we meet our true self.
We have all been through our own personal holocaust.
Sorrow and pain come upon all flesh.
Physical wounds sometimes heal faster than mental ones.
One of the best ways to get over hurt is to address the hurt of others.
In tragedy we discover more about ourselves.
The wounds were so deep I had to re-invent myself.
It was a serious psychological and emotional injury.
The pain does not go away, but you can learn to make it constructive.
It is common sense to know at one time or another the world will break your heart.
Living with inside scars that are more damaging than outside slashes.
I am still in mental recovery.
We need to meet people at the depth of their hurt.
Pain can bring sensitivity to another’s wounds.
This culture and most of humanity need a healthy understanding of human frailty.
To be a human being is to live and face pain and suffering.
When people are suffering and broken they need encouragement, not condemnation that they are being negative or just wallowing in self-pity.
The wounds will heal although I still carry the deep scars of pain.
The pain was many fold.
The old mental wound was re-opened and started to bleed again.
In some cases, pain can trigger creativity.
At times we need to learn to celebrate life despite the pain.
.If possible, pain needs to be turned into a positive direction.
There can be spiritual healing in suffering.
A mental injury that will haunt her forever.
THE PAST IS NEVER THE PAST
(Excerpt From Part Three)
The past is never really the past, it stays with us all the time.
The past colors our present and future conception of the world.
The past has shaped our beliefs, perceptions, and personality.
Our past experience is what made us.
The past always affects a part of our todays and tomorrows.
In some cases, the past can destroy a person’s present and future.
One cannot get into the present without taking a walk through the past.
A person cannot stand in the present without the residue and odors of the past resonating from their being.
We are identified by our character which has been formed by past experiences.
What one reaps in the future is what one sowed in the past.
What one has experienced and accomplished in the past greatly affects their future.
Past incidents play a major role in the future.
A wise person once said “Those who do not understand the past are doomed to repeat it”.
The horrors of the past can distort our judgment of the present.
One can learn a lot about present day life by studying the past.
By writing your own history, you write your own future.
There are times in a person’s life when many precious things are lost because of the major wrong choices made in the past.
The past is never the past when there are hard feelings present.
It is wisdom to remember that the past was only yesterday.
One’s choices and decisions from the past shape our present and future.
The past is the best route to understanding the present.
People who say “forget the past it is meaningless”, know little about life.
The past is part of our existence.
We are all linked to our past through tradition, culture, and experiences.
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