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Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

Dale Carnegie

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
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
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Ability Criticism Encouragement
The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.
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Destination Journey Man Path Start
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
If we speak poorly about that which we do well, people will assume we perform poorly!
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Action Assumption Ourselves Poor Talk
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
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
Don’t ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time
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Himself Important Man Time
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
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
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Blood Enemy Hate Ourselves Power Sleep
Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.
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Follow Goodness Leadership Myself
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Lying Sleep Worry Yourself
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
Believe that you will succeed, and you will.
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Believe Inspirational Willing Yourself
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

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