” The most precious things in speech are the pauses.” Sir Ralph Richardson, famed 20th century English stage and film actor
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.” Martin Farquhar Tupper, 19th century English writer and poet
‘The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” – Mark Twain
(Wish I had said that … actually, I have. A ‘Phil’s Faves’ often heard in my presentation skill workshops and executive coaching engagements is ‘Harness the Power of the Pause!’. And, … you can quote me.)