You are often asked to describe your hero or heroine. Who should you choose?
SPEECHES & HEROES & HEROINES
I am compiling a list of the world's heroes and heroines who I think you will find inspirational. I am selecting a succinct quotation and an interesting story which encapsulates their lives, a new person to learn about and talk about for each day of the year.
I started this list to help myself write opening speeches, to help myself as a speaker at a speakers' training club. (I am a former presidents of Harrovian Toastmasters in London, England.}
Then I thought I should share my research with other writers and readers so they could enjoy the stories, benefit from my research and share my enthusiasm. This list should be useful to you if you are ever a toastmasters, president, chairman, after dinner speaker, or motivational speaker at a meeting. I am looking for the sort of story you might hear at school, as a student, on the radio or TV.
But even when you are between jobs, looking for work, not yet working, or retired, you might enjoy the stories. The characters are people you would like to hear about if you were in the audience or listening or watching.
This task is not as simple as you might think. It involves finding at least 365 inspirational people.
That's why I have still not finished.
Why did I start compiling my list? Every time I go to a speakers' meeting at Toastmasters International anywhere in the world I might be asked to speak. Or I might find a speaker who has had to take over at the last minute from somebody who is unable to attend. So I look for one person. In the back of my book Quick Quotations For Successful Speakers I have a list of some of the seasonal and national days. For example, Christmas Day - see quotations on Christmas, Mother's Day - see quotations on mothers - and Valentine's Day - see quotations on love.
A speaker can usually use the lives of the people who started a festival as inspiration for a speech in that week or that month. I started a list.
SPEECHES & HEROES & HEROINES
I am compiling a list of the world's heroes and heroines who I think you will find inspirational. I am selecting a succinct quotation and an interesting story which encapsulates their lives, a new person to learn about and talk about for each day of the year.
I started this list to help myself write opening speeches, to help myself as a speaker at a speakers' training club. (I am a former presidents of Harrovian Toastmasters in London, England.}
Then I thought I should share my research with other writers and readers so they could enjoy the stories, benefit from my research and share my enthusiasm. This list should be useful to you if you are ever a toastmasters, president, chairman, after dinner speaker, or motivational speaker at a meeting. I am looking for the sort of story you might hear at school, as a student, on the radio or TV.
But even when you are between jobs, looking for work, not yet working, or retired, you might enjoy the stories. The characters are people you would like to hear about if you were in the audience or listening or watching.
This task is not as simple as you might think. It involves finding at least 365 inspirational people.
That's why I have still not finished.
Why did I start compiling my list? Every time I go to a speakers' meeting at Toastmasters International anywhere in the world I might be asked to speak. Or I might find a speaker who has had to take over at the last minute from somebody who is unable to attend. So I look for one person. In the back of my book Quick Quotations For Successful Speakers I have a list of some of the seasonal and national days. For example, Christmas Day - see quotations on Christmas, Mother's Day - see quotations on mothers - and Valentine's Day - see quotations on love.
A speaker can usually use the lives of the people who started a festival as inspiration for a speech in that week or that month. I started a list.
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