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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
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Motivational Speaker
Psychologist
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Maryville
Missouri
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The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
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Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.
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People support a world they helped create.
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
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Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.
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Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.
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Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.
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Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe. Or-better still-pray!
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People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves
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Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener
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Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.
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