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One word of caution: If you are going to work strange names into your talk, having learned them through inquiries made for the occasion, be sure you have them exactly right; be sure you understand fully the reason for your use of the names; be sure you mention them only in a favorable way; and use them in moderation.
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Dale Carnegie
Some speakers fail to get attention with their opening words because all too often these words consist only of repetitious remarks, cliches, or fragmentary apologies that are of no interest to the audience.
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Dale Carnegie
I have ever heard. Her name, Meg Sheil. Here is her opening: “I was a prisoner for ten years. Not in an ordinary prison, but in one whose walls were worry about my inferiority and whose bars were the fear of criticism.” Don’t you want to know more about this true-life episode?
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Dale Carnegie
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