“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
“People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
“This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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