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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Approximate author period: c. 1921 AD · modern

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Dale Carnegie
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Approximate author period: c. 1921 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1888 to 1955; Wikidata Q230762, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230762 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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