However, he held his audiences in rapt attention. "Lincoln's voice was, when he first began speaking, shrill, squeaking, piping, unpleasant; his general look, his form, his pose, the color of his flesh, wrinkled and dry, his sensitiveness, and his momentary diffidence, everything seemed to be against him, but he soon recovered." --William H. Lincoln spoke nearly two hours and we believe he would have held his audience had he spoken all night." -- Dover ( New Hampshire) Inquirer , March 8, 1860 Yes, it’s important to let the strength of your convictions be heard in your

There are two ways you can use repetition to create hooks that your audience will remember. What I will do is draw on one section of Barack Obama’s concession speech after the New Hampshire primary. “We’ve It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land: In my last post, I touched on three ways to make your speeches more memorable . I

Super Tuesday's New York Times focused on Hillary Clinton's success in speaking before small groups --roundtables, town hall meetings and the like--in moving, emotional ways that connect with the group, versus her large-rally speeches, seen as less successful. More thoughtful were New York University gender scholar Carol Gilligan's observations the day before Super Tuesday, during her appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, a Washington public radio talk show. The article, which notes that Clinton will need to connect more with the large crowds ahead in a presidential campaign, uses a rally last week in San Francisco as an example.