Be careful before using a quotation. At Mindful Presenter on May 23, 2021 there is an article by Maurice DeCastro titled 7 Tips to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking. They are:
Tip 1: Mark Twain was right
Tip 2: Listen to Wayne Dyer, he was right too
Tip 3: Stop presenting and start connecting
Tip 4: Speak nicely to yourself
Tip 5: Remember how far you’ve come
Tip 6: Ask yourself 4 questions
Tip 7: Take it to Vagus
Under Tip 1 he begins:
"Here at Mindful Presenter Ltd we believe that Mark Twain was right when he said, ‘There are two types of speakers: Those who get nervous and those who are liars.’ ”
On May 12, 2020 I blogged about Did Mark Twain really say there were just nervous speakers or liars? In that post I discussed how both Garson O’Toole and I found that Twain ‘quote’ only showed up late in the twentieth century, so it really didn’t come from him.
Under DeCastro’s Tip 4 he mentions Matt Abrahams. On September 29, 2020 I blogged about how Matt was responsible for A quantified version of a discredited Mark Twain quotation about fear of public speaking.
On May 7, 2021 I blogged about how A news release from Toastmasters International begins with a quotation that really is not from Mark Twain.
The image of Twain with the quote fairy was assembled from an image of Twain at the Library of Congress and a fairy from Wikimedia Commons.
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