"O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you."
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"To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant."
"I've never given a speech without being terrified first."
"The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs."
"They classify my motivational speeches as rants..."
"The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj."
"It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk."
"The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice."
"The one religion is beyond all speech."
"Nature doesn't make long speeches."
"I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans."
"When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting."
"Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed."
"Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself."
"Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent."
"Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said."
"That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech."
"Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen."
"It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.""
"What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world."