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If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

Dale Carnegie

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so. Don’t condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
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People Remember Tolerance Try Understand Wrong
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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Cherish Forget Kind Life Time Word Yourself
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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Frustration Resentment Work Worry
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
if you want to keep happiness, you have to share it!
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Happiness Share Yourself
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Happiness Remember Thinking Yourself
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
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
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
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
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
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Chance Dare Life Man Risk Willing Yourself
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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Empathy Quick Wrong
The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don’t lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.
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Choice Interest Leadership Live World
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
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Criticism Mistake Person Talk
Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.
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Follow Goodness Leadership Myself

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