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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.

Dale Carnegie

People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Aspiration Attention Conversation Goodness Listening Person Yourself
I’ve found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
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Blessing Irritation Moments Posession Worry
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
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Criticism Dangerous Hurt Important Person Pride
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
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Apply Knowledge Power
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
90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
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Communication Management Problem
It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.
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Attitude Mental Tired Work Yourself
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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Awake Day Development Enthusiasm Interest Life Yourself
Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.
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Enemy Hurt Ourselves Time Try Wasted Time
Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
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Active Knowledge Learning Mindset Yourself
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
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
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Condition Control Happiness Listening Seek Thinking World Yourself
Believe you will be successful and you will.
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Believe Success Willing Yourself
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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Accomplishment Hope Important World
The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.
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Change Feeling Important Life Person

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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