Dale Carnegie

"My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people."

how. Vain effort! It is an ancient truism that we learn to do by doing. The first thing for the beginner in public speaking is to speak—not to study voice and gesture and the rest.

by self–observation or according to the criticisms of those who hear.

methods are secondary matters; that the full mind, the warm heart, the dominant will are primary—and not only primary but paramount;

he is urged to speak, speak, SPEAK as he is applying to his own methods, in his own personal way, the principles he has gathered from his own experience and observation and the recorded experiences of others.

is sheer egotism to fill your mind with thoughts of self when a greater thing is there—TRUTH.

sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangle and be "half scared to death."

You must learn to speak by speaking.

The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.

Concentration is a process of distraction from less important matters.