The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

There is no predicting how far the ability to speak on your feet will take you

Keep Sight of Your Goal

Emerson said, “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

Concentrate your attention on what self-confidence and the ability to talk more effectively wil

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Draw yourself up to your full height and look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as confidently as if every one of them owed you money. Imagine that they do. Imagine that they have assembled there to beg you for an extension of credit. The psychological effect on you will be beneficial.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”

How is one going to get these desirable “yes-responses” at the very outset? Fairly simple. “My way of opening and winning an argument,” confided Lincoln, “is to first find a common ground of agreement.” Lincoln found it even when he was discussing the highly inflammable subject of slavery. “For the first half hour,” declared The Mirror, a neutral paper reporting one of his talks, “his opponents

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obtuse and incapable

Shortly after the close of the First World War, I met two brothers in London, Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith. They had just made the first aeroplane flight from London to Australia to win a fifty-thousand-dollar prize offered by the Australian government. They had created

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sparkle and interest

Depict yourself in some ridiculous and embarrassing

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Bouquets of flowers were heaped upon the speaker by the chairman.

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