I have discovered that wherever there is an annointing on something for me to do, there is an "eaze" about it. For example, playing instruments come easy for me, but when it comes to singing, forget about it! I don't hold a pitch too well and I've got very little confidence trying to sing in public. It is a total drudgery for me. However, I can sing in background without any problem. I suppose if I could do it all I would not need anyone else.

Here's another example; I've tried face to face sales as a work profession. I was horrible at it, and needless to say, I hated it!

Some people simply run out of words or encounter difficulty in expressing and finding exact words, which results in failure to reveal what is really on their mind. Others do not know how to play with words. They fail to choose and use best style that would catch and sustain readers' and audience' interest. A number lack persuasion due to insufficient proof and evidence supporting their thesis. That is: one point they want to make. Few cannot find appealing way of starting or introducing argument. Okay, let's say that introduction is well established, but loophole is in body if not in conclusion. The thesis is not spelled out in body. Ideas justifying their logic are not accurately displayed. Their conclusion lacks emphasis, which if made better would definitely create a mark in their audience' mind.

These are some of ailments of writing and of giving speeches (I mentioned public speaking here since its bottom-line is still writing). One of best antidotes of these ailments is to exercise magic of quotations. You can be a guru of employing magic of quotations once you know what is, when and how to use quotations.

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote." -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Quotation

ýan exact reproduction of another speaker's or writer's words. ýa way of incorporating information from other sources into your own writing. ýinspires your creative thinking ýstrengthens your essays and research papers

The Uses of Quotation

"Words ... so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in hands of one who knows how to combine them!" -Nathaniel Hawthorne-

So when your own words are not enough to substantiate your argument, to illustrate or explain an opinion or idea, use quotations.

"The most noble and profitable invention of all other was that of speech, consisting of names or appellations, and their connection; whereby men register their thoughts, recall them when they are past, and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation; without which there had been amongst men neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears and wolves." -Thomas Hobbes -