How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.
Interpretation
Preparation is crucial for effective communication; acknowledging a lack of it only highlights the issue.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being well-prepared when addressing an audience. By drawing attention to one's own shortcomings in preparation or ability, the speaker inadvertently reveals their incompetence, and the audience is likely to notice this without explicit acknowledgment. The quote suggests that confidence and competence in public speaking derive from thorough preparation.
In practice
During a workshop training session to emphasize the importance of preparation.
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
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I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.
We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own value. Many girls are still made to feel it's not feminine to be good at science or math.
We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
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