Cat Got Your Tongue?: Powerful Public Speaking Skills & Presentation Strategies for Confident Communication or, How to Create the Purrfect Speech by Diane Windingland

Author:Diane Windingland [Windingland, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Small Talk Big Results
Published: 2012-09-13T14:00:00+00:00

Use Quotes or Poems to Open or Close Your Speech

The audience gazed in anticipation as I stood before them holding a large black cloth draped over my arm. I threw the black cloth over my head. After a brief pause, I quoted the opening lines of an Emily Dickinson poem:

“I’m nobody. Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?”

I then paused again, removed the cloth and continued with the rest of my speech. The speech was about noticing the people around us. It was for a Toastmaster speech contest several years ago. I didn’t win (I think shrouding my head and might have been too contrived). However, quoting the poem, one of Emily Dickinson most famous poems, was a hit!

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