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Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

Dale Carnegie

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
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Change Ideas Mindset Open Opinion Progress Yourself
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
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Deep Happiness Person Praise Seek
90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
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Communication Management Problem
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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Condition Feeling Habit Possible Present Yourself
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.
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Happiness Thinking Yourself
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Development Encouragement Failure Success
Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.
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Honesty Person Point See Try View
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.
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Interest People Yourself
Take a chance! All life is a chance
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Chance Life One Liner
Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
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Future Improvement Learning Mistake Progress Yourself
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Classification Contact Evaluation Way World
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
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Chance Debate Listening Resistance Talk Understand
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
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Action Happiness Loud Smile Talk Word Yourself
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Fun People Rare
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
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Circumstance Determination Feeling Ourselves Reaction

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