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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

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
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Busy Fear Home Thinking Yourself
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
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 we speak poorly about that which we do well, people will assume we perform poorly!
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Action Assumption Ourselves Poor Talk
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
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Bright Live See Smile Yourself
Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.
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Generosity Karma Life True Yourself
90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
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Communication Management Problem
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
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
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
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Listening Talk Time
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
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
Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.
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Deal People Point Success View
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
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Correct Easy Encouragement Mistake
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.
DALE CARNEGIE

Engagement Person Process Yourself

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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