“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
“Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.”
― 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
“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
“Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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