Browsing Quotes With Tag: quick-and-easy-way-to-effective-speaking (20)
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can, with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good window does not call attention to itself. It merely lets in the light. A good speaker is like that. He is so disarmingly natural that his hearers never notice his manner of speaking: they are conscious only of his material.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there had never been anything just like it before, and never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put us all in the same mold. But, I say, don’t let that spark be lost; it’s your only real claim to importance.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you will come to me and say ‘let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from one another, understand why it is that we differ from one another, just what the points at issue are,’ we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only had the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.
Speaker: Woodrow WilsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When the congregation falls asleep, there is only one thing to do; provide the usher with a sharp stick and have him prod the preacher.
Speaker: Henry Ward BeecherPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.’
If you would impress an audience, be impressed yourself. Your spirit, shining through your eyes, radiating through your voice, and proclaiming itself through your manner, will communicate itself to your audience.Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Get a student to say ‘no’ at the beginning, or a customer, child, husband, or wife, and it takes the wisdom and patience of angels to transform that bristling negative into an affirmative.
Speaker: Harry OverstreetPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The sincerity with which a man speaks imparts to his voice a color of truth no perjurer can feign.
Speaker: Alexander WoolcottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think as wise men do but speak as the common people do.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
Speaker: Ludwig WittgensteinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As one enlarges his ability to get others to understand him, he opens up to that extent his opportunity for usefulness. Certainly in our society, where it is necessary for many for them even in the simplest matters to co-operate with each other, it is necessary first of all to understand each other. Language is the principal conveyor of understanding, and so we must learn to use it, not crudely but discriminatingly.
Speaker: Owen D. YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Act in earnest, and you will become naturally earnest in all you do.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy effective delivery with the tongue. Where their purpose is merely to entertain, not to instruct, they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized, and turned into the common form of unpremeditated talk; otherwise they will bore the house – not entertain it.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If a speech is to be of any importance at all, the speaker should live with the theme or message, turning it over and over in his mind. He will be surprised at how many useful illustrations or ways of putting his case will come to him as he walks the street, or reads a newspaper, or gets ready for bed, or wakes up in the morning. Mediocre speaking very often is merely the inevitable and the appropriate reflection of mediocre thinking, and the consequence of imperfect acquaintance with the subject at hand.
Speaker: Norman ThomasPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
So, to feel brave, act as if we were brave. Use all of our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Brood over your topic until it becomes mellow and expansive… then put all these ideas down in writing, just a few words, enough to fix the idea… put them down on scraps of paper – you will find it easier to arrange and organize these loose bits when you come to set your material in order.
Speaker: Charles Reynold BrownPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In almost any subject, your passion for the subject will save you. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. If you wish to be good, you will be good. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to be learned, you will be learned. Only then you must really wish these things and wish them with exclusiveness and not wish one hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 5:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 5:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!