“Putting it off as a way of life is one technique that you can use to avoid doing. A non-doer is very often a critic, that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It is easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk and change.”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
“Here is the first point I am trying to make in this chapter: It is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches.”
― How To Stop Worrying & Start Living
― How To Stop Worrying & Start Living
“I have revised some folk wisdom lately; one of my edited proverbs is Nothing fails like success because you do not learn anything from it. The only thing we ever learn from is failure. Success only confirms our superstitions.”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
“have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times?”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
“In a Nutshell - Six Ways To Make People Like You • Principle 1 - Become genuinely interested in other people. • Principle 2 - Smile. • Principle 3 - Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. • Principle 4 - Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. • Principle 5 - Talk in terms of the other person's interests. • Principle 6 - Make the other person feel important-and do it sincerely.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
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