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[Quotations about public speaking] "Stage time" works

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Does this seem such a truism?

Are great speakers born or made?

Do people think they will be great speakers to begin with?

I'd love to hear your thoughts. Why do you think Ralph Waldo Emerson actually wrote this set of words?

Incidentally they come from this passage from “The Conduct of Life” published in 1860.

Practice is nine tenths. A course of mobs is good practice for orators. All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Stumping it through England for seven years, made Cobden a consummate debater. Stumping it through New England for twice seven, trained Wendell Phillips. The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Quotations

[Inspiration] Your distress about life …

[Public Speaking Quotation] … for Sweet Benjamin

"Imprison it"...? Hmm. My mother used to say to me "Put your words on the palm of your hand and look at them before you speak." I liked that. Sweet Benjamin needs to guard against speaking without thinking.

If he's going to be a speaker, he needs to consider his message and his audience before he speaks.

But "imprison" ...? What do you think?

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[Inspiration] Seek not to change the world …

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see."

From A Course In Miracles