Dale Carnegie
DALE CARNEGIE Premium Collection: The Art of Public Speaking, How to Win Friends and Influence People, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living & Lincoln the Unknown
e-artnow, 2016
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ISBN 978-80-268-4720-5
Table of Contents
How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
The Art of Public Speaking
THINGS TO THINK OF FIRST—A FOREWORD
CHAPTER I—ACQUIRING CONFIDENCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE
CHAPTER II—THE SIN OF MONOTONY
CHAPTER III—EFFICIENCY THROUGH EMPHASIS AND SUBORDINATION
CHAPTER IV—EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PITCH
CHAPTER V—EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PACE
CHAPTER VII—EFFICIENCY THROUGH INFLECTION
CHAPTER VIII—CONCENTRATION IN DELIVERY
CHAPTER X—FEELING AND ENTHUSIASM
CHAPTER XI—FLUENCY THROUGH PREPARATION
CHAPTER XIV—DISTINCTNESS AND PRECISION OF UTTERANCE
CHAPTER XV—THE TRUTH ABOUT GESTURE
CHAPTER XVI—METHODS OF DELIVERY
CHAPTER XVII—THOUGHT AND RESERVE POWER
CHAPTER XVIII—SUBJECT AND PREPARATION
CHAPTER XIX—INFLUENCING BY EXPOSITION
CHAPTER XX—INFLUENCING BY DESCRIPTION
CHAPTER XXI—INFLUENCING BY NARRATION
CHAPTER XXII—INFLUENCING BY SUGGESTION
CHAPTER XXIII—INFLUENCING BY ARGUMENT
CHAPTER XXIV—INFLUENCING BY PERSUASION
CHAPTER XXV—INFLUENCING THE CROWD
CHAPTER XXVI—RIDING THE WINGED HORSE
CHAPTER XXVII—GROWING A VOCABULARY
CHAPTER XXVIII—MEMORY TRAINING
CHAPTER XXIX—RIGHT THINKING AND PERSONALITY
CHAPTER XXX—AFTER-DINNER AND OTHER OCCASIONAL SPEAKING
CHAPTER XXXI—MAKING CONVERSATION EFFECTIVE
APPENDIX A—FIFTY QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE
APPENDIX B—THIRTY THEMES FOR SPEECHES
APPENDIX C—SUGGESTIVE SUBJECTS FOR SPEECHES
APPENDIX D—SPEECHES FOR STUDY AND PRACTISE
THINGS TO THINK OF FIRST
A FOREWORD
The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his subject from the wrong angle even his excellent advice may prove to be ineffective.
This book stands or falls by its authors' attitude toward its subject. If the best way to teach oneself or others to speak effectively in public is to fill the mind with rules, and to set up fixed standards for the interpretation of thought, the utterance of language, the making of gestures, and all the rest, then this book will be limited in value to such stray ideas throughout its pages as may prove helpful to the reader—as an effort to enforce a group of principles it must be reckoned a failure, because it is then untrue.
It is of some importance, therefore, to those who take up this volume with open mind that they should see clearly at the out-start what is the thought that at