Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident."
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Public Speaking
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George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."
Kin Hubbard
Cartoonist, Humorist
""Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? ""
Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers."
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"A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there."
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"If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused."
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"Every man is eloquent once in his life."
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"Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public."
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"The people are to be taken in very small doses."
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"A good orator is pointed and impassioned."
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"Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it."
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"In oratory the greatest art is to hide art."
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"Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!"
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"Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them."
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