How to Develop Self-confidence in Speech & MannerFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1910 - 280 páginas |
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How to Develop Self-Confidence in Speech & Manner Grenville Kleiser Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
achieve aloud ambition asked audience become begin better breath build character Charles Kingsley cheerful concentration confidence conscious constantly courage cultivate daily definite Demosthenes Descartes desire develop discouragement earnest effort energy express failure faith fear fearthought feel fixt friends give Gladstone Goethe grow habit heart HENRY VAN DYKE hope imagination inspired JOHN STUART MILL lack listen live look Lord Palmerston man's manner matter mean Memorize the following ment mental Michelangelo mind negative thought ness never night noble one's orators person Phillips Brooks picture PLAUTUS Plutarch poise positive thoughts possession practise public speaking qualities realize reserve power resolute right thinking self-con self-consciousness self-reliance Shakespeare society soul speaker speaking voice speech spirit strong success sympathy talk things thou timate timid tion tivate to-day train true truth Washington Irving weakness wonderful words worry
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Página 279 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Página 157 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 265 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Página 206 - Again the pealing organ heaves its thrilling thunders, compressing air into music, and rolling it forth upon the soul. What long-drawn cadences ! What solemn sweeping concords ! It grows more and more dense and powerful ; it fills the vast pile and seems to jar the very walls — the ear is stunned — the senses are overwhelmed. And now it is winding up in full jubilee — it is rising from the earth to heaven ; the very soul seems rapt away and floated upwards on this swelling tide of harmony!
Página 10 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 185 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it.
Página 268 - True worth is in being, not seeming — In doing each day that goes by Some little good — not in dreaming Of great things to do by and by.
Página 64 - In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Página 136 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Página 59 - No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If...