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You, your audience, and truth
21 11 2007
Assuming a virtue or a vice vitalizes it. Summon all your power of self-direction, and
remember tat toug your audience is infinitely more important tan you, te !"#!$ ismore important tan you A%& your audience, because !"#!$ is eternal.
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Your audience is your friend
20 11 2007
+n public speec, as in electricity, tere is a positive and a negative force. iter you oryour audience are going to possess te positive factor. +f you assume it, you can ma*e it
yours. +f you assume te negative, you are sure to be negative.
&iscipline your mind focus your mind to positive leadersip of your audience. Since youare ta*ing te opportunity to instruct or lead or inspire a multitude or even a small group
of people, you must be courageous. es, even toug it poses li*e an verest of a
callenge. / courageousit lies witin you to be wat you will. A yourself becalm and confident.
/elieve tat your audience will not urt you. &on3t fool yourself into tin*ing tat tey
will loo* down on you. ou are not under persecution. ou did not *ill anybody. ou didnot ma*e teir life miserable. ou are tere because you ave someting to say, tat onlyyou may offer rigt now, rigt ere.
+n facing an audience, + pause a moment, pray to my 4od and tan* im for giving me
te opportunity to enric te te lives of my audience and for tat opportunity to enric
my life as well. 5perience taugt me tat in facing my audience6tere is a tousandcances to one tey want me to succeed, for wat man is so foolis as to spend is
precious time, peraps is ard-earned money, in te ope tat + will waste is
investment by tal*ing nonsense
our audience is your friend. !ey want you to succeed8
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Humility and Greatness in Speaking
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7 11 2007
9ar worse tan self-consciousness troug fear of doing poorly is self-consciousness
troug assumption of doing well. !e first sign of greatness is wen a man does notattempt to loo* and act great. /efore you can call yourself a man at all, ipling assures
us, you must :not loo* too good nor tal* too wise.;
%oting advertises itself so torougly as conceit. e must conceal self-love.; /ut tat can not be done. ou *now
tis to be true, for you ave recognized overweening self-love in oters. +f you ave it,
oters are seeing it in you. !ere are tings in tis world bigger tan self, and in wor*ing
for tem self will be forgotten, orwat is betterremembered only so as to elp us wintoward iger tings.
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Have Something to Say
@ 11 2007
!e trouble wit many spea*ers is tat tey go before an audience wit teir mindsempty figuratively, of courseB. +t is no wonder tat nature, aborring a vacuum, fills
tem wit te nearest ting andy, wic generally appens to be, :+ wonder if + am
doing tis rigt8 $ow does my air loo* + *now + sall fail.; !eir propetic souls aresure to be rigt.
+t is not enoug to be absorbed by your subCectto acDuire self-confidence you must
ave someting in wic to be confident. +f you go before an audience witout any
preparation, or previous *nowledge of your subCect, you ougt to be self-consciousyouougt to be asamed to steal te time of your audience. ?repare yourself. now wat you
are going to tal* about, and, in general, ow you are going to say it. $ave te first few
sentences wor*ed out completely so tat you may not be troubled in te beginning to find
words. now your subCect better tan your earers *now it, and you ave noting to fear.
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Be Absorbed by Your Subject
E1 10 2007
+f you feel deeply about your subCect you will be able to tin* of little else. 'oncentration
is a process of centering on more important matters. +t is too late to tin* about weter
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you ave gargled listerine tis morning once you are on te platform, so focus your
interest on wat you are about to sayfill your mind wit your speec-material and, li*e
a river tat flows naturally, you will soon reac te sea of silent satisfaction.
Self-consciousness is undue consciousness of self, and, for te purpose of delivery, self is
secondary to your subCect, not only in te opinion of te audience, but in your own. !oold any oter view is to regard yourself as an e5ibit instead of as a messenger wit a
message wort delivering.
+t is seer egotism to fill your mind wit tougts of self wen a greater ting is tere
!"#!$. Say tis to yourself sternly, and same your self-consciousness into Duiescence.
+f te teater caugt fire you could rus to te stage and sout directions to te audiencewitout any self-consciousness, for te importance of wat you were saying would drive
all fears out of your mind.
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Epect Success
E0 10 2007
Fet your bearing be modestly confident, but most of all be modestly confident witin.
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!earn to think on your feet
E0 10 2007
en you forget some of your materials, you still aveample materials ready for your use..
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Ho" to arrange your speech ideas#
2G 10 2007
+f you ave several topics to cover in a single speec were would you put te most
important 9irst or last >rite upon a piece of paper te position you coose. ou avegiven tis plan some tougt so you doubtlessly put down te correct position.
>at did you write 9irst !at is usually te answer of nine out of every ten. Are you
wit te maCority
!in* for a moment. >ic sould be te most important part of a story or a play !ebeginning or te ending +f it is te early part, wy sould any one read on to te end or
stay for te curtain to come down te last time So in speeces te importance of topics
sould always increase as te speec proceeds. !is, ten, is a principle of planning.Arrange your topics in an ascending order of importance. >or* up to wat is called te
clima5.
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$ead aloud to be natural
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Seven Easy Steps to Speech&making
1@ 10 2007
1. 'oose a subCect. 'oosing a subCect depends upon te nature and purpose of teoccasion.
2.4ater material from boo*s, periodicals, and oter sources to supplement your
*nowledge and e5periences about te subCect.
E. a*e an outline of your subCect. our outline must ave te introduction,tediscussion,and te conclusion. ou must place te principal ideas under eadings and
subeadings.
G. >rite out your speec in full, using te outline as your basis. !e discipline of writing
out a speec, even toug te intention is to spea* witout notes, is of great value. +t
sows tat your are prepared and you respect te time and intelligence of your audience.
I. >en your speec as at last been carefully written out you must practice reading it
out loud. ou must :ear; your speec. &oes your speec sound conversational or a
formal one, li*e a dissertation on te mating abits of fireflies a*e sure tat yourwritten speec is conversational wen delivered. +f you intend to ma*e it sound li*e an
essay, simply ma*e a lot of potocopies and provide your audience teir own copy. !ey
will tan*ful to you for sparing tem from furter agony.
@. "evise your speec wen necessary.
7. !en practice wit a live audience. es, cats and dogs may Coin your live audience.
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%rain yourself everyday
10 10 2007
!e art of spea*ing is so simple tat it is difficult. !ere is an erroneous impression tat
in order to ma*e a successful speec you must ave unusual natural talent in addition tolong and arduous study.
&o you, wen as*ed to ma*e a speec, fear te very idea of spea*ing ost people, once
committed to te underta*ing, spend an5ious days and sleepless nigts in mental agony,muc as a criminal is said to do Cust prior to is e5ecution. >en at last tey attempt teir
:maiden effort,; tey are almost wolly unfit for teir tas* because of te needless waste
of tougt and energy wasted in fear.
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>en do you say tat you are prepared to deliver a speec 9ocus your preparation not
only on te speec, but of te self6pysically, mentally,and spiritually. >en you are
pysically,mentally, and spiritually ready you can deliver speeces tat inspire anyaudience anytime, anywere.