Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, and remind myself that I'll be dead in another thirty years, but that the great spiritual truths that all churches teach are eternal. Why all the feverish hurry and rush, little man? You need to pause and acquire a little perspective." At such times, I frequently drop into the first church that I find open.Īlthough I am a Protestant, I frequently, on weekday afternoons, drop into St. When I feel that I am too rushed and hurried to spare a few minutes to think about spiritual things, I say to myself: "Wait a minute, Dale Carnegie, wait a minute. “When we are harassed and reach the limit of our own strength, many of us then turn in desperation to God-"There are no atheists in foxholes." But why wait till we are desperate? Why not renew our strength every day? Why wait even until Sunday? For years I have had the habit of dropping into empty churches on weekday afternoons. Water, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangleĪnd be "half scared to death." There are a great many "wetless"īathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim You excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in the You can never attainįreedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise. How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars-graze him in aīack-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines orĪutomobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently seeĪpply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness andįear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. Thundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing aįarmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse as Horses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at the Self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before anĭid you ever notice in looking from a train window that some “Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome
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