“If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don’t wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
“You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“If you take a handful of salt and pour it into a small bowl of water, the water in the bowl will be too salty to drink. But if you pour the same amount of salt into a large river, people will still be able to drink the river's water.
If your heart is small, one unjust word or act will make you suffer. But if your heart is large, if you have understanding and compassion, that word or deed will not have the power to make you suffer.”
― The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
If your heart is small, one unjust word or act will make you suffer. But if your heart is large, if you have understanding and compassion, that word or deed will not have the power to make you suffer.”
― The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“To be interesting, be interested.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Abe Lincoln once remarked that “most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” He was right.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
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