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
you