Dale Carnegie

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

We avoid monotony in speech by multiplying our powers of speech.

Get your principles right," said Napoleon, "and the rest is a matter of detail

So let it be understood that public speaking is not a matter of mastering a few dead rules; the most important law of public speech is the necessity for truth, force, feeling, and life. Forget all else, but not this.

mechanics of speech outlined in the next few chapters you will no longer be troubled with monotony.

But they cannot be mastered and applied by thinking or reading about them—you must practise, practise, PRACTISE. If no one else will listen to you, listen to yourself—you must always be your own best critic, and the severest one of all.

natural—but improve your natural gifts until you have approached the ideal, for we must strive after idealized nature, in fruit, tree, and speech.

by remembering particular rules, but by being full of a particular feeling.

The speaker that fires his force and emphasis at random into a sentence will not get results. Not every word is of special importance—therefore only certain words demand emphasis.

It is there that monotony caused by lack of emphasis is so painfully apparent.