Public Speaking
Obama … ‘Inaugral Speech’ …
Solid, respectable, uplifting, suitably short, superbly delivered – but not quite up to expected immortality. A good speech has to have a memorable theme, stated early and reprised at the end.
The tone was resolute, suffused with sobriety and reflected a tough realism. The words were simple; the language graceful. The nation was treated as [...]
Napoleon … as orator …
Nice recent post on the French Emperor - followed by an equally lucid comment.
So, not to be left behind, here is what Houston Peterson, the noted authority on eloquence, says about this great leader of men about whom some one else has written, “One cannot forget that he abandoned one army in Egypt, left the remnants of another [...]
John of Antioch … (340 – 407AD)
Saint John Chrysostom was nicknamed, the ‘golden mouthed’; and rose to become Archbishop of Constantinople. He is supposed to have gone into the desert for nearly a decade of self study and discipline before he accidentally came upon his chosen field.
In the Nineteenth Century John Henry Newman painted this notable portrait -
“He spoke because his heart, his head, were brimful [...]
You and Your Voice …..
Human Speech is the faculty that distinguishes mankind from lesser creation. The human voice is the most but worst used.
Method of speech should afford pleasure to others. An unpleasant voice is repulsive. Personal magnetism demands the adoption of a sympathetic voice.
Your voice is the reflection of the Real You. It is the tool of your [...]
Jesus Christ – the Speaker !
“What stamps the language of Jesus is its delicate ease, implying a sensibility to every real aspect of the matter in hand – a sense of mastery and peace’.
“Men marvelled at the charm of his words … the homely parable may in other hands be coarse enough, but the parables of Jesus have a quality [...]
You and Your Personal Qualities … I
Self Containment is the greatest quality of a person and is the most potent of all agencies for developing power.
It calms strong feelings and results in the superb mind, which refuses to come in contact with the meanness of life.
It is the Courageous, Polite and Even Carriage of Temperament.
What is temperament? It is the sum [...]
You and Your Personal Qualities – II
Self Containment in a Nutshell
A. Observe your self and omit all faults of person.
B. Drive out all Physical, Mental and Nervous Restlessness.
C. Check all exhibition of feeling.
D. The face that pictures every mood is weak. You should not wear your heart upon your sleeve.
E. Meaning of Self Containment is containing of Self.
What is held in [...]
Wendell Phillips
A mid Nineteenth Century, vastly respected and aristocratic civil rights crusader, Wendell Phillips had this to say on ‘ Public Speaking’ of that era.
“Hearing O’Connell, John Randolph (of Roanoke Va), who hated an Irishman nearly as much as he hated a Yankee, burst out, ‘This is the man! These are the lips, the most eloquent [...]
Shortest Speech Ever !!!
This is what Sri Aurobindo once spoke,“LIFE IS YOG”
Very very Profound, and, End of Story!!!
You and Poise – I
Midway between extremes is natural perfection and this is Poise.
A person, who controls all moods and feelings, is in personal poise and he becomes their master and they become his slave.
Poise inspires the highest degree of confidence and creates self containment.
No other single trait of personality can equal it.
Law of Poise favors vitality.
A person in [...]
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