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Do not make haste to begin—haste shows lack of control.
Do not apologize. It ought not to be necessary; and if it is, it will not help. Go straight ahead.
‘Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity.’
the most important law of public speech is the necessity for truth, force, feeling, and life. Forget all else, but not this.
Of course it is always well to address your speech to your furthest auditors; if they get it, those nearer will have no trouble,
The actress Mary Anderson asked the poet Longfellow what she could do to improve her voice. He replied, ‘Read aloud daily, joyous, lyric poetry.’
‘The Voice with the Smile Wins.’
There is a vast deal of difference between being conscious of self and being self-conscious.
We naturally watch moving objects. A janitor putting down a window can take the attention of the hearers from Mr Roosevelt. By making a few movements at one side of the stage a chorus girl may draw the interest of the spectators from a big scene between the ‘leads.’
The speaker skilled in moving men to action manages to dominate the minds of his audience with his thoughts by subtly prohibiting the entertaining of ideas hostile to his own.
