Learn English Mohammed Qahtani The Power of Words with BIG subtitles

what all y’all think smoking kills and

let me tell you something do you know

that the amount of people dying from

diabetes are three times as many people

dying from smoking yet if I pulled a

snicker bar nobody will say anything do

you know that the leading cause of lung

cancer is that actually a cigarette it’s

your DNA you could smoke for years and

nothing would ever happen to you this

whole war against smoking is just to

restrict the farming of tobacco mr.

Carter’s chair para Toastmasters and

guests I use these arguments even though

I just made them up

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we’ll have over my friends and the

results five of them believed what I

said two of them started smoking words

when said and articulated in the right

way can change someone’s mind they can

alter someone’s belief you have the

power to bring someone from the slums of

life

and make a successful person out of them

or destroy someone’s happiness using

only your words does that seem a bit too

good to be true a simple choice of word

can make a difference between someone

accepting or denying your message you

can have a very beautiful thing to say

but say it in the wrong words and it’s

gone I have a son who’s four and he had

this bad habit of writing on the walls

with crayons and one evening I walked

into his room and his going at it just

writing and drawing and so on Hey

are you stupid don’t you ever do that

again

and guess what happened he did it again

nobody likes to be threatened nobody

likes to be intimidated his pride would

not allow it he did it again just to

spite me

a week later I walked into his room and

again he’s going at it and this time he

was even looking at me

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I came down and said sweetie come here

don’t do that you’re a big boy now

and he never did it again because his

pride wants him to be the big boy have

you ever wondered why nobody cares about

global warming even though it’s a very

serious issue it could kill all of us

because when you go home when you flip

on the TV and you see as scientists

trying to talk about global warming it

goes something like this

ladies and gentlemen as a manager can

see from the grass here the distance a

server for 2014 it shows the water level

is rising this this table shows that the

monitor oxic level and the third ozone

layer is anybody alarming position

the message never get across but most

importantly if you are a person who’s a

role model if you’re a person who’s been

admired anything you say could be

believed anything you utter could be

taken as truth my friend Nasser he loved

his father idealized his father he would

do anything to make him happy but his

father was the kind of person who is not

easy to impress and year after year

Nasser try than his father’s like force

here in college now forgot straight A’s

and he thought to himself this is it

this was will finally make my dad proud

he picked up the phone he called his dad

dad I got straight A’s are you proud

please tell him you’re proud father

yeah listen son I’ll have to call you

back I’m busy I’m busy was the single

sentence the broke the camel’s back and

he started drinking doing drugs hanging

out with the wrong crowd

Nasser why why are you throwing your

life away

if the one person in the war that I care

about the most doesn’t care then then

why should i and one evening I got the

phone call

Nasser’s in the emergency room drug

overdose

I rushed to the hospital I saw him on

that bed and I saw that machine go beep

beep beep and I saw doctors try to bring

him back to life

clear they’re clear it’s clear that a

single word could have saved this life

words have power

words are power words could be your

power you can change your life

inspire a nation and make this world a

beautiful place isn’t that what we all

want it isn’t that what we are all in

this hall your mouth can spit venom or

it can mend a broken soul there’s and

gentlemen let that be our goal

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