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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

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
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Attention Interest Oneself People Time Win
Believe you will be successful and you will.
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Believe Success Willing Yourself
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
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Advantage Competition Individual People Rare Seek World
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.
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Break Face Live See Smile Sun Yourself
Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.
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Attitude Charge Choice Yourself
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
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Bright Live See Smile Yourself
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Exception Existence Fear Mindset
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
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Criticism Mistake Person Talk
If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
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Mistake Time Yourself
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Argument Avoid Best Way
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
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
Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
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Himself Lonely Person Walk Way World
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
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
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Ability Criticism Encouragement
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

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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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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