Great Film Speeches

Mar 12

Ever want to get the pacing down just perfectly for “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”? Ever feel the need to use Michael Douglas’s “Greed, for the sake of a better word, is good” in your next presentation? Have an occasion to blend “Do you feel lucky, punk?” into your workplace sensitivity training? Well, you’re in luck.

Not Defteri posted an article that lists their favorites for the Top 10 Greatest Film Speeches and Monologues. And as a 4X bonus, they also wrote The Top 40 Greatest Conference Speeches and Keynotes. Don’t have time to watch all these? Then YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH. Oh, I just watched Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan Jessup in a clip from A Few Good Men.

[via A Welsh View]

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Frank Roche

Frank started IFRACTAL over 7 years ago with Sarah Chambers. Together, they've created HR communications and HR software for some of the world's leading companies. Frank is also studying Flamenco guitar and origami.

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  1. Sarah says:

    One of the best communicators I know is not a communicator by trade. He knows who he is and he reads this blog. He was a leader in the last organization I worked in. A leader both in name and in practice. He sent several amazing email messages, I wish I had cataloged them. But one sticks clearly in my mind.

    He once sent a note to everyone in the entire office. That note had one of the best (if not the single best) subject lines I’ve ever read or heard of. It said “I love the smell of data in the morning.” How many people do you think skipped over that email message? Um, none.

    I’ve gotten thousands of emails since. Still, I remember that one best. I suspect I always will. A little twist on a familiar phrase. Very powerful.

    It reminds me of something another leader I admire very much often says… good poets borrow, great poets steal.

    Catch them both soon… co-starring at a conference near you.

  2. Frank Roche says:

    That may be one of the very best Subject lines ever: I love the smell of data in the morning.

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