“Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.” KnowsAudienceMinistersCommentReceivingSpeakersPouringDiscouragementRippleLecturerAppreciative Book:How to win friends & influence people Source: How to win friends & influence people
“Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.” WritingKindCharacterUseThreeAudienceExampleEmotionalArgumentSpeakersPersuasionThree ThingsEthosLogosPathosReceptivityPersonal Character Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition
“It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary.... The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint.” DoeSaidWholeResponsibilityAudienceRightsExpressionTheoryCommunicationCircumstancesIntegritySpeechContraryObligationInvitesSpeakersContemplatingRestraintPropositionsHostilityProvocativeRetaliationFree Expression Author:Thomas I. Emerson
“Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.” MindFirstsKindCharacterCertainThreeAudienceDependsSpeechThirdsProofSpeakersRhetoricPersuasionSpoken WordFrame Of MindPersonal Character Author:Aristotle
“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.” PeopleIfsHeartSpeakVoiceAnswersAudiencePlayerTerribleLaborEnglandInstrumentsCrowdsStrikesWitIronySpeakersApprovalUp And DownPitsGalleryRippleDissonanceLabor MovementCaustic Author:Mary Heaton Vorse
“There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.” BookDifferentUsedAudienceSourceKingsSpeechSignificantStatementsMinistersPhrasesSpeakersMultipleEssaysVariation Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.” PeopleIfsPersonsI CanDoneHelpingJobsRoomsAudienceTerribleStandardsSpeakers Author:Simon Sinek
“Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!” IfsCareTurnsPassionForgetAudienceIssuesSticksObviousGoldenEnthusiasmSpeakersConventionalTopicsForget ItTurn-onGolden RuleLukewarmVests Author:Tom Peters