Dale Carnegie Quotes

I am not a speaker. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, but I always want to be prepared, and I always practice my speeches; I never do it off the cuff.

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

It's essential that you make eye contact with your audience. You've got to know what's happening out there.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations.

I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.

The moment for me, thinking I might actually want to do comedy professionally, was when I did public speaking at school. I found out I was good at getting up in front of class. In the fifth grade, I did a speech on comedy.

Ventriloquism kind of helped me find my voice. It's really helped me come out of my shell.

Sorry, public speaking isn't really my strong side.

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.

I am not a good cue card reader.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!