The Art of Public Speaking - Carnegie, Dale
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The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his subject from the wrong angle even his excellent advice may prove to be ineffective. This book stands or falls by its authors' attitude toward its subject. If the best way to teach oneself or others to speak effectively in public is to fill the mind with rules, and to set up fixed standards for the interpretation of thought, the utterance of language, the making of gestures, and…mehr

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The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his subject from the wrong angle even his excellent advice may prove to be ineffective. This book stands or falls by its authors' attitude toward its subject. If the best way to teach oneself or others to speak effectively in public is to fill the mind with rules, and to set up fixed standards for the interpretation of thought, the utterance of language, the making of gestures, and all the rest, then this book will be limited in value to such stray ideas throughout its pages as may prove helpful to the reader-as an effort to enforce a group of principles it must be reckoned a failure, because it is then untrue. It is of some importance, therefore, to those who take up this volume with open mind that they should see clearly at the out-start what is the thought that at once underlies and is builded through this structure. In plain words it is this: Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals-primarily; it is not a matter of imitation-fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards-at all. Public speaking is public utterance, public issuance, of the man himself; therefore the first thing both in time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel things that are worthy of being given forth. Unless there be something of value within, no tricks of training can ever make of the talker anything more than a machine-albeit a highly perfected machine-for the delivery of other men's goods. So self-development is fundamental in our plan.
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Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer and lecturer, Dale Carnegie is widely regarded as a pioneer of the self-improvement genre. A skilled orator right from the times when he was in high school, Carnegie worked as a travelling salesman to save up money and try his luck at acting. Upon finding that theatre life was not quite a perfect fit for him, he served in the army for a year. Eventually, he started teaching public speaking at the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association), in New York. The classes were a great success, and later in order to deal with the growing number of students, he set up the Dale Carnegie Institute. Since no textbooks for teaching people skills existed at the time, he had to write them all himself. The most famous of these textbooks, How to Win Friends and Influence People, went on to become a bestseller. Some of his other celebrated books include How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948) and Lincoln the Unknown (1932).
Dale Carnegie
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