“The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise.”
― Dale Carnegie,
The Art of Public Speaking
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It's such a lovely old-fashioned quote, isn't it? "Whip with a switch" from the days of horses and horse carriages. And I would think that if you used a switch without leaves it would certainly tingle, though these days we shudder a little at the thought of beating the poor animal.
Nevertheless, writing as he was, in his time, Henry Ward has made a timeless point - waffling does not drive home searching truths.
And there's another wonderful term "searching truths". Ah! If all the points I make when I speak cause my audiences to search their beliefs and themselves, I would be very happy!
I wish you (and me) speaking experiences that drive us and our points home ... in fine style!
The quote today is from Jonathan Swift ...
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
And that's true ...
but sometimes it's fun to share a little dig at the art with an audience!!
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
Anatole France
I hadn't heard about Dan Quayle's reputation, though at least I had heard of the man. I was researching quotations about public speaking and found this one.
Public speaking is very easy.
~ Dan Quayle
Intrigued, I had to find out more - what was the context?
Why did he say that?
Was he being arrogant?
Was he joking?
I still haven't discovered the context, but I have discovered some amazing statements attributed to him. What a speaker he really was!!
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches
~Adlai E. Stevenson
