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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155516503321

Autore

Carnegie Dale

Titolo

The art of public speaking / / Dale Carnegie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Sheba Blake Publishing, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-304-67016-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1343 p.)

Disciplina

808.51

Soggetti

Public speaking

Speeches, addresses, etc - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards--at all. Public speaking is public utterance, public issuance, of the man himself; therefore the first thing both in time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel things that are worthy of being given forth. Unless there be something of value within, no tricks of training can ever make of the talker anything more than a machine--albeit a highly perfected machine--for the delivery of other men's goods. So self-d