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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.

Dale Carnegie

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.
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Destination Journey Man Path Start
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.”
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Happiness Himself Man Old
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
Believe you will be successful and you will.
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Believe Success Willing Yourself
If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
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Mistake Time Yourself
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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Happiness Success Yourself
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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Happiness Impression Oneself Reason
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
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
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Fools Important Intelligence Life Man Profit Simplicity
An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.
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Action Management Planning Save Time Yourself
You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.
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Age Beginning Time World Yourself
Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.
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Attitude Cash Enthusiasm Money Sales
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
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.
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Believe Hold Work 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
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
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Love People Sympathy Thirst Yourself
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
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Engagement Person Process Yourself
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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Friendship Interest People Yourself
Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.
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Attitude Charge Choice Yourself
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
If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
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Conversation Goodness Interest Listening Yourself
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
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Complaint Control Criticism Fools Forgiveness Understand
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
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Action Ignorance Ourselves Trouble
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Different Himself Man Profit Success Way
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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Creature Deal Emotion Logic People 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
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

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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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