Background Image

...

Psychiatrists Declare That Most Of Our Fatigue Derives From Our Mental And Emotional Attitudes... What Kinds Of Emotional Factors Tire The Sedentary (or Sitting) Worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, Resentment, A Feeling Of Not Being Appreciated, A Feeling Of Futility, Hurry, Anxiety, Worry-those Are The Emotional Factors That Exhaust The Sitting Worker, Make Him Susceptible To Colds, Reduce His Output, And Send Him Home With A Nervous Headache. Yes, We Get Tired Because Our Emotions Produce Nervous Tensions In The Body.

-Dale Carnegie

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

Psychiatrists Declare That Most

Dale Carnegie

...

Psychiatrists Declare That Most Of Our Fatigue Derives From Our Mental And Emotional Attitudes... What Kinds Of Emotional Factors Tire The Sedentary (or Sitting) Worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, Resentment, A Feeling Of Not Being Appreciated, A Feeling Of Futility, Hurry, Anxiety, Worry-those Are The Emotional Factors That Exhaust The Sitting Worker, Make Him Susceptible To Colds, Reduce His Output, And Send Him Home With A Nervous Headache. Yes, We Get Tired Because Our Emotions Produce Nervous Tensions In The Body.

Views: 6

Topic

More From Dale Carnegie

No One Likes To Feel That He Or She Is Being Sold Some-thing Or Told To Do A Thing. We Much Prefer To Feel That We Are Buying Of Our Own Accord Or Acting On Our Own Ideas. We Like To Be Consulted About Our Wishes, Our Wants, Our Thoughts.

This Is The Only Chance You Will Ever Have On Earth With This Exciting Adventure Called Life. So Why Not Plan It, And Try To Live It As Richly, As Happily As Possible?

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. Our Enemies Would Dance With Joy If Only They Knew How They Were Worrying Us, Lacerating Us, And Getting Even With Us! Our Hate Is Not Hurting Them At Al, But Our Hate Is Turning Our Days And Nights Into A Hellish Turmoil.

Nobody Is More Persuasive Than A Good Listener

There Is Only One Excuse For A Speaker's Asking The Attention Of His Audience: He Must Have Either Truth Or Entertainment For Them.

If We Rail And Kick Against It And Grow Bitter, We Won't Change The Inevitable; But We Will Change Ourselves. I Know. I Have Tried It. I Once Refused To Accept An Inevitable Situation With Which I Was Confronted. I Played The Fool And Railed Against It, And Rebelled. I Turned My Nights Into Hells Of Insomnia. I Brought Upon Myself Everything I Didn't Want. Finally, After A Year Of Self-torture, I Had To Accept What I Knew From The Outset I Couldn't Possible Alter.

By All Means Take Thought For The Tomorrow, Yes, Careful Thought And Planning And Preparation. But Have No Anxiety.

The Sure-thing Boat Never Gets Far From Shore.

Will And Determination

If You Are Wrong, Admit It Quickly And Emphatically.

Influencing People

Win Friends And Influence People

Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes

The Thing Is To Get The Work Done.

Create Accomplishment From Disappointments. Demoralization And Disappointment Are Two Of The Surest Going Stones To Achievement.

Remember, Today Is The Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday.

Face The Thing That Seems Overwhelming And You Will Be Surprised How Your Fear Will Melt Away.

Remember Happiness Doesn't Depend Upon Who You Are Or What You Have; It Depends Solely On What You Think.

Try Leaving A Trail Of Little Sparks Of Gratitude On Your Daily Trips. You Will Be Surprised How They Will Set Small Flames Of Friendship That Will Be Rose Beacons On Your Next Visit.

Looking At The Other Person's Point Of View And Arousing In Him An Eager Want For Something Is Not To Be Construed As Manipulating That Person So That He Will Do Something That Is Only For Your Benefit And His Detriment. Each Party Should Gain From The Negotiation.

Merely Stating A Truth Isn't Enough. The Truth Has To Be Made Vivid, Interesting, Dramatic. You Have To Use Showmanship.

Today Is Life-the Only Life You Are Sure Of. Make The Most Of Today.

Live In The Moment

If You Want To Develop Courage, Do The Thing You Fear And Keep On Doing It Until You Have A Record Of Successful Experiences Behind You. That Is The Quickest And Surest Way Ever Yet Discovered To Conquer Fear. You Can Conquer Almost Any Fear If You Will Only Make Up Your Mind To Do So. For Remember, Fear Doesn't Exist Anywhere Except In The Mind.

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.

If You Do The Little Jobs Well, The Big Ones Will Tend To Take Care Of Themselves.

Your Purpose Is To Make Your Audience See What You Saw, Hear What You Heard, Feel What You Felt. Relevant Detail, Couched In Concrete, Colorful Language, Is The Best Way To Recreate The Incident As It Happened And To Picture It For The Audience.

Don't Fuss About Trifles. Don't Permit Little Things-the Mere Termites Of Life-to Ruin Your Happiness.

Talk To Someone About Themselves And They'll Listen For Hours.

Great Communication

I Deal With The Obvious. I Present, Reiterate, And Glorify The Obvious - Because The Obvious Is What People Need To Be Told.

By Talking To Yourself About The Things You Have To Be Grateful For You Can Fill Your Mind With Thoughts That Soar And Sing.

When Dealing With People, Remember You Are Not Dealing With Creatures Of Logic, But Creatures Of Emotion.

The Biggest Lesson I Have Learned Is The Stupendous Importance Of What We Think. If I Knew What You Think, I Would Know What You Are, For Your Thoughts Make You What You Are; By Changing Our Thoughts, We Can Change Our Lives.

We Talk A Lot About The Importance Of Physical Exercise To Wake Us Up Out Of The Half Sleep In Which So Many Of Us Walk Around. But We Need, Even More, Some Spiritual And Mental Exercises Every Morning To Stir Us Into Action. Give Yourself A Pep Talk Every Day.

You Can't Get Anywhere In This World Without Wanting To Do Something.

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.

Do The Hard Jobs First. The Easy Jobs Will Take Care Of Themselves.

You Must Have A Good Time Meeting People If You Expect Them To Have A Good Time Meeting You.

Having A Good Time

Let The Winds Of Enthusiasm Sweep Through You. Live Today With Gusto.

Live In The Moment

When Two Partners Always Agree, One Of Them Is Not Necessary." If There Is Some Point You Haven't Thought About, Be Thankful If It Is Brought To Your Attention.

Why Prove To A Man He Is Wrong? Is That Going To Make Him Like You? Why Not Let Him Save Face? He Didn't Ask For Your Opinion. He Didn't Want It. Why Argue With Him? You Can't Win An Argument, Because If You Lose, You Lose It; And If You Win It, You Lose It. Why? You Will Feel Fine. But What About Him? You Have Made Him Feel Inferior, You Hurt His Pride, Insult His Intelligence, His Judgment, And His Self-respect, And He'll Resent Your Triumph. That Will Make Him Strike Back, But It Will Never Make Him Want To Change His Mind. A Man Convinced Against His Will Is Of The Same Opinion Still.

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.

Self-expression Is The Dominant Necessity Of Human Nature.

Give Your Problem All The Thought You Possibly Can Before A Solution Is Reached. But When The Matter Is Settled And Over With, Worry Not At All.

An Argument Would Have Begun To Steam And Boil And Sputter - And You Know How Arguments End. Even If I Had Convinced Him That He Was Wrong, His Pride Would Have Made It Difficult For Him To Back Down And Give In.

Much Of The Best Work Of The World Has Been Done Against Seeming Impossibilities.

My Popularity, My Happiness And Sense Of Worth Depend To No Small Extent Upon My Skill In Dealing With People.

Any Fool Can Criticize, Condemn And Complain - And Most Fools Do. But It Takes Character And Self Control To Be Understanding And Forgiving.

If You Want To Win Friends, Make It A Point To Remember Them. If You Remember My Name, You Pay Me A Subtle Compliment; You Indicate That I Have Made An Impression On You. Remember My Name And You Add To My Feeling Of Importance.

Don't Criticize, Condemn Or Complain. Constantly Criticizing, Condemning And Complaining Is What Breaks Most Relationships. Instead Of Criticizing And Condemning, Figure Out How You Can Solve The Problem Together. Instead Of Focusing On Blaming The Other Person For What They Did Wrong, Focus On How You Can Avoid The Problem Next Time.

Names Are The Sweetest And Most Important Sound In Any Language.

Do You Remember The Things You Were Worrying About A Year Ago? How Did They Work Out? Didn't You Waste A Lot Of Fruitless Energy On Account Of Most Of Them? Didn't Most Of Them Turn Out All Right After All?

If You Have Worries, There Is No Better Way To Eliminate Them Than By Walking Them Off. Just Take Them Out For A Walk. They May Take Wings And Fly Away!

Praise Is Like Sunlight To The Warm Human Spirit; We Cannot Flower And Grow Without It. And Yet, While Most Of Us Are Only Too Ready To Apply To Others The Cold Wind Of Criticism, We Are Somehow Reluctant To Give Our Fellow The Warm Sunshine Of Praise.

Tomorrow You May Want To Persuade Somebody To Do Something. Before You Speak, Pause And As Yourself, "how Can I Make This Person Want To Do It?

In Talking With People, Don't Begin By Discussing The Things On Which You Differ. Begin By Emphasizing - And Keep On Emphasizing - The Things On Which You Agree. Keep Emphasizing, If Possible, That You Are Both Striving For The Same End And That Your Only Difference Is One Of Method And Not Of Purpose.

I Want You To Think Of Your Life As An Hourglass. You Know There Are Thousands Of Grains Of Sand In The Top Of The Hourglass; And They All Pass Slowly And Evenly Through The Narrow Neck In The Middle. Nothing You Or I Could Do Would Make More Than One Grain Of Sand Pass Through This Narrow Neck Without Impairing The Hourglass. You And I And Everyone Else Are Like This Hourglass.

Don't Be Afraid To Give Your Best To What Seemingly Are Small Jobs.

It Was This Desire For A Feeling Of Importance That Led An Uneducated, Poverty-stricken Grocery Clerk To Study Some Law Books He Found In The Bottom Of A Barrel Of Household Plunder That He Had Bought For Fifty Cents. You Have Probably Heard Of This Grocery Clerk. His Name Was Lincoln.

Any Fool Can Try To Defend His Or Her Mistakes- And Most Fools Do- But It Raises One Above The Herd And Gives One A Feeling Of Nobility And Exultation To Admit One's Mistakes.

Cash Can Buy, But It Takes Enthusiasm To Sell.

Happiness Doesn't Depend On Any External Conditions, It Is Governed By Our Mental Attitude.

Believe You Will Be Successful And You Will.

Being Successful

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.

Finding Yourself

There Is A Reason Why The Other Man Thinks And Acts As He Does. Ferret Out That Reason — And You Have The Key To His Actions, Perhaps To His Personality. Try Honestly To Put Yourself In His Place.

Personally I Am Very Fond Of Strawberries And Cream, But I Have Found That For Some Strange Reason, Fish Prefer Worms. So When I Went Fishing, I Didn’t Think About What I Wanted. I Thought About What They Wanted. I Didn't Bait The Hook With Strawberries And Cream. Rather, I Dangled A Worm Or Grasshopper In Front Of The Fish And Said: "wouldn't You Like To Have That?" Why Not Use The Same Common Sense When Fishing For People?

The Chronic Kicker, Even The Most Violent Critic, Will Frequently Soften And Be Subdued In The Presence Of A Patient, Sympathetic Listener— A Listener Who Will Be Silent While The Irate Fault-finder Dilates Like A King Cobra And Spews The Poison Out Of His System.

Winning Friends Begins With Friendliness.

Win Friends And Influence People

The Life Of Many A Person Could Probably Be Changed If Only Someone Would Make Him Feel Important.

Flattery Is Counterfeit, And Like Counterfeit Money, It Will Eventually Get You Into Trouble If You Pass It To Someone Else.

Counterfeit Money

Enthusiasm Is The Dynamics Of Your Personality. Without It, Whatever Abilities You May Possess Lie Dormant; And It Is Safe To Say That Nearly Every Man Has More Latent Power Than He Ever Learns To Use. You May Have Knowledge, Sound Judgment, Good Reasoning Faculties; But No One-not Even Yourself-will Know It Until You Discover How To Put Your Heart Into Thought And Action.

Bitter Criticism Caused The Sensitive Thomas Hardy, One Of The Finest Novelists Ever To Enrich English Literature, To Give Up Forever The Writing Of Fiction. Criticism Drove Thomas Chatterton, The English Poet, To Suicide. . . . Any Fool Can Criticize, Condemn And Complain - And Most Fools Do. But It Takes Character And Self-control To Be Understanding And Forgiving.

People Rarely Succeed Unless They Have Fun In What They Are Doing.

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.

The Only Way On Earth To Influence Other People Is To Talk About What They Want And Show Them How To Get It.

Do Things For Others And You'll Find Your Self-consciousness Evaporating Like Morning Dew.

Five Hundred Years Before Christ Was Born, The Greek Philosopher Heraclitus Told His Students That "everything Changes Except The Law Of Change". He Said: "you Cannot Step In The Same River Twice." The River Changes Every Second; And So Does The Man Who Stepped In It. Life Is A Ceaseless Change. The Only Certainty Is Today. Why Mar The Beauty Of Living Today By Trying To Solve The Problems Of A Future That Is Shrouded In Ceaseless Change And Uncertainty-a Future That No One Can Possibly Foretell?

A Barber Lathers A Man Before He Shaves Him.

You Can Conquer Almost Any Fear If You Will Only Make Up Your Mind To Do So. For Remember, Fear Doesn't Exist Anywhere Except In The Mind.

Talk To Anyone About Himself Positively And He'll Listen Without Interruption.

Let's Never Try To Get Even With Our Enemies, Because If We Do We Will Hurt Ourselves Far More Than We Hurt Them. Let's Do As General Eisenhower Does: Let's Never Waste A Minute Thinking About People We Don't Like.

Seventy Per Cent Of All Patients Who Come To Physicians Could Cure Themselves If They Got Rid Of Their Fears And Worries.

Take Charge Of Your Attitude. Don't Let Someone Else Choose It For You.

Is Enthusiasm Important In Selling? Yes, Genuine, Heartfelt Enthusiasm Is One Of The Most Potent Factors Of Success In Almost Any Undertaking.

Obviously, Circumstances Alone Do Not Make Us Happy Or Unhappy. It Is The Way We React To Circumstances That Determines Our Feelings. Jesus Said That The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Within You. That Is Where The Kingdom Of Hell Is, Too.

Be A Good Listener. Encourage Others To Talk About Themselves.

Influencing People

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.

You Cannot Teach A Man Anything, You Can Only Help Him Find It Within Himself.

Develop Success From Failures. Discouragement And Failure Are Two Of The Surest Steppingstones To Success. No Other Element Can Do So Much For A Man If He Is Willing To Study Them And Make Capital Out Of Them. Look Backward. Can't You See Where Your Failures Have Helped You?

Make The Other Person Feel Important - And Do It Sincerely.

The Resentment That Criticism Engenders Can Demoralize Employees, Family Members And Friends, And Still Not Correct The Situation That Has Been Condemned.

Give Honest And Sincere Appreciation.

There Is One All-important Law Of Human Conduct. If We Obey That Law, We Shall Almost Never Get Into Trouble. In Fact, That Law, If Obeyed, Will Bring Us Countless Friends And Constant Happiness. But The Very Instant We Break The Law, We Shall Get Into Endless Trouble. The Law Is This: Always Make The Other Person Feel Important.

Remember That Unjust Critisism Is Often A Disquised Compliment.

You Can Measure The Size Of A Person By What Makes Him Or Her Angry

Self Improvement

So, To Prevent Fatigue And Worry, The First Rule Is: Rest Often. Rest Before You Get Tired.

An Effective Speaker Knows That The Success Or Failure Of His Talk Is Not For Him To Decide - It Will Be Decided In The Minds And Hearts Of His Hearers.

Public Speaking

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.

History Has Repeatedly Been Changed By People Who Had The Desire And The Ability To Transfer Their Convictions And Emotions To Their Listeners.

All The King's Horses And All The King's Men Can't Put The Past Together Again. So Let's Remember: Don't Try To Saw Sawdust.

Every Minister, Lecturer And Public Speaker Know The Discouragement Of Pouring Himself Of Herself Out To An Audience And Not Receiving A Single Ripple Of Appreciative Comment.

Happiness Is Largely An Attitude Of Mind, Of Viewing Life From The Right Angle.

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.

Let's Fill Our Minds With Thoughts Of Peace, Courage, Health, And Hope, For "our Life Is What Our Thoughts Make It."

There Is Only One Way Under High Heaven To Get Anybody To Do Anything. Did You Ever Stop To Think Of That? Yes, Just One Way. And That Is By Making The Other Person Want To Do It.

Talk In Terms Of The Other Person's Interests.

The Person Who Seeks All Their Applause From Outside Has Their Happiness In Another's Keeping .

If You Want To Be Happy, Set Yourself A Goal That Commands Your Thoughts, Liberates Your Energy And Inspires Your Hopes. Happiness Is Within You. It Comes From Doing Some Certain Thing Into Which You Can Put All Your Thought And Energy. If You Want To Be Happy, Get Enthusiastic About Something.

Stop And Look Out The Window And See How Beautiful The World Is. It Is There-enjoy It. Go Out Tonight And Look Up At The Stars. They Are The Wonders Of Nature

Knowledge Isn’t Power Until It Is Applied.

Pay Less Attention To What Men Say. Just Watch What They Do.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

In Order To Make Friends You Must First Be Friendly

One Of The Surest Ways Of Making A Friend And Influencing The Opinion Of Another Is To Give Consideration To [his Or Her] Opinion, Let [him Or Her] Sustain A Feeling Of Importance.

When You Face A Problem, Solve It Then And There If You Have The Facts Necessary To Make A Decision. Don't Keep Putting Off Decisions.

Success Is Getting What You Want. Happiness Is Wanting What You Get.

Those Convinced Against Their Will Are Of The Same Opinion Still.

There Is A Certain Degree Of Satisfaction In Having The Courage To Admit One's Errors.

Close Your Eyes. You Might Try Saying. . . Something Like This: "the Sun Is Shining Overhead. The Sky Is Blue And Sparkling. Nature Is Calm And In Control Of The World-and I, As Nature's Child, Am In Tune With The Universe." Or-better Still-pray!

Ask Questions Instead Of Giving Direct Orders.

It Isn’t What You Have Or Who You Are Or Where You Are Or What You’re Doing That Makes You Happy Or Unhappy. It’s What You Think Of It. Two People May In The Same Place Doing The Same Thing, And Yet One May Be Miserable And The Other Happy. Why? Because Of A Different Mental Attitude.

Hurting A Man In His Dignity Is A Crime.

Do The Thing You Fear To Do And Keep On Doing It... That Is The Quickest And Surest Way Ever Yet Discovered To Conquer Fear.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words, And A Smile Says, ‘i Like You. You Make Me Happy. I Am Glad To See You.

You Make Me Happy

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

The Successful Man Will Profit From His Mistakes And Try Again In A Different Way.

The Only Way To Get The Best Of An Argument Is To Avoid It.

What Is The Answer To This Fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn To Relax While You Are Doing Your Work!

When Theodore Roosevelt Was In The White House, He Confessed That If He Could Be Right 75 Percent Of The Time, He Would Reach The Highest Measure Of His Expectation. . . . If That Was The Highest Rating That One Of The Most Distinguished Men Of The Twentieth Century Could Hope To Obtain, What About You And Me?

People Aren't Interested In You. They're Interested In Themselves

The Man Who Starts Out Going Nowhere, Generally Gets There.

Flaming Enthusiasm, Backed Up By Horse Sense And Persistence, Is The Quality That Most Frequently Makes For Success.

We Nourish The Bodies Of Our Children And Friends And Employees, But How Seldom Do We Nourish Their Selfesteem? We Provide Them With Roast Beef And Potatoes To Build Energy, But We Neglect To Give Them Kind Words Of Appreciation That Would Sing In Their Memories For Years Like The Music Of The Morning Stars.

If We Are So Contemptibly Selfish That We Can’t Radiate A Little Happiness And Pass On A Bit Of Honest Appreciation Without Trying To Screw Something Out Of The Other Person In Return—if Our Souls Are No Bigger Than Sour Crab Apples, We Shall Meet With The Failure We So Richly Deserve.

The Royal Road To A Man's Heart Is To Talk To Him About The Things He Treasures Most.

If You Want Others To Like You, If You Want To Develop Real Friendships, If You Want To Help Others At The Same Time As You Help Yourself, Keep This Principle In Mind: Become Genuinely Interested In Other People.

So If You Aspire To Be A Good Conversationali St, Be An Attentive Listener.

Good Conversation

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.

You Can Get Ahead In The World. But You Will Have To Work, You Will Have To Want Tremendously To Accomplish Something, And Then Be Willing To Pay The Price. Are You Willing?

Develop Success From Failures.

Create Happiness For Others.

Take Stock Of Your Fears Now And See How Many Of Them Are Senseless. If You Are Honest With Yourself You Will Probably Find Most Of Them Are Groundless.

Honest With Yourself

Your Smile Is A Messenger Of Your Goodwill.

If Your Own Mind Is Muddled, Much More Will The Minds Of Your Hearers Be Confused.

Public Speaking

Put A 'stop-loss' Order On Your Worries. Decide Just How Much Anxiety A Thing May Be Worth- And Refuse To Give It Any More.

One Of The Worst Features About Worrying Is That It Destroys Our Ability To Concentrate. When We Worry, Our Minds Jump Here And There And Everywhere, And We Lose All Power Of Decision. However, When We Force Ourselves To Face The Worst And Accept It Mentally, We Then Eliminate All Those Vague Imaginings And Put Ourselves In A Position In Which We Are Able To Concentrate On Our Problem.

Only The Prepared Speaker Deserves To Be Confident.

Public Speaking

Neither You Nor I Nor Einstein Nor The Supreme Court Of The United States Is Brilliant Enough To Reach An Intelligent Decision On Any Problem Without First Getting The Facts

The Unvarnished Truth Is That Almost All The People You Meet Feel Themselves Superior To You In Some Way, And A Sure Way To Their Hearts Is To Let Them Realize In Some Subtle Way That You Recognize Their Importance, And Recognize It Sincerely.

Become Genuinely Interested In Other People.

Influencing People

Win Friends And Influence People

When We Have A Brilliant Idea, Instead Of Making Others Think It Is Ours, Why Not Let Them Cook And Stir The Idea Themselves.

Your Smile Brightens The Lives Of All Who See It.

Learning Is An Active Process. We Learn By Doing.. Only Knowledge That Is Used Sticks In Your Mind.

The Words "think And Thank" Are Inscribed In Many Of The Cromwellian Churches Of England. These Words Ought To Be Inscribed In Our Hearts, Too: "think And Thank". Think Of All We Have To Be Grateful For, And Thank God For All Our Boons And Bounties.

If You Want To Conquer Fear, Don't Sit Home And Think About It. Go Out And Get Busy.

This Is A Hurried Age We're Living In. If You've Got Anything To Say, Say It Quickly, Get To The Point And Stop, And Give The Other Man A Chance To Talk.

Most People Don't Remember Names, For The Simple Reason That They Don't Take The Time And Energy Necessary To Concentrate And Repeat And Fix Names Indelibly In Their Minds. They Make Excuses For Themselves; They Are Too Busy.

I've Found That Worry And Irritation Vanish Into Thin Air The Moment I Open My Mind To The Many Blessings I Possess.

Develop Success From Failures. Discouragement And Failure Are Two Of The Surest Stepping Stones To Success. The Successful Man Will Profit From His Mistakes And Try Again In A Different Way. When You're Afraid, Keep Your Mind On What You Have To Do...if You Have Been Thoroughly Prepared, You Will Not Be Afraid. We All Have Possibilities We Don't Know About. We Can Do Things We Don't Even Dream We Can Do.

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.

If You Must Make A Mistake, Make A New One Each Time.

One Of The Most Appalling Comments On Our Present Way Of Life Is That At One Time Half Of All The Beds In Our Hospitals Were Reserved For Patients With Nervous And Mental Troubles, Patients Who Had Collapsed Under The Crushing Burden Of Accumulated Yesterdays And Fearful Tomorrows. Yet A Vast Majority Of Those People Would Be Walking The Streets Today, Leading Happy, Useful Lives — If They Had Only Heeded The Words Of Jesus: “have No Anxiety About The Morrow”; Or The Words Of Sir William Osler: "live In Day-tight Compartments."

If You Want To Be A Good Conversationalist, Be A Good Listener. To Be Interesting, Be Interested.

Good Conversation

The Ability To Speak Well Is The Shortcut To Distinction.

You Have It Easily In Your Power To Increase The Sum Total Of This World's Happiness Now. How? By Giving A Few Words Of Sincere Appreciation To Someone Who Is Lonely Or Discouraged. Perhaps You Will Forget Tomorrow The Kind Words You Say Today, But The Recipient May Cherish Them Over A Lifetime.

Suppose You Had Inherited The Same Body And Temperament And Mind That Al Capone Had. Suppose You Had Had His Environment And Experiences. You Would Then Be Precisely What He Was. . . . For It Is Those Things - And Only Those Things - That Made Him What He Was. . . . You Deserve Very Little Credit For Being What You Are - And Remember, The People Who Come To You Irritated, Bigoted, Unreasoning, Deserve Very Little Discredit For Being What They Are.

Are You Bored With Life? Then Throw Yourself Into Some Work You Believe In With All Your Heart, Live For It, Die For It, And You Will Find Happiness That You Had Thought Could Never Be Yours.

Act As If You Were Already Happy And That Will Tend To Make You Happy.

Begin With Praise And Honest Appreciation.

Speakers Who Talk About What Life Has Taught Them Never Fail To Keep The Attention Of Their Listeners.

One Can Win The Attention And Time And Cooperation Of Even The Most Sought-after People By Becoming Genuinely Interested In Them.

Criticism Of Others Is Futile And If You Indulge In It Often You Should Be Warned That It Can Be Fatal To Your Career.

...the Best Possible Way To Prepare For Tomorrow Is To Concentrate With All Your Intelligence, All Your Enthusiasm, On Doing Today's Work Superbly Today. That Is The Only Possible Way You Can Prepare For The Future.

If You Have Some Idea You Believe In, Don't Listen To The Croaking Chorus. Listen Only To What Your Own Inner Voice Tells You.

People Say I'm Cocky, But Am I Supposed To Sit Here And Be Insecure And Not Know Where My Future's Going Or Not Realize That Moviemaking Is The Greatest Thing To Happen To Me?

Remember My Name And You Add To My Feeling Of Importance.

Nothing Else So Inspires And Heartens People As Words Of Appreciation. You And I May Soon Forger The Words Of Encouragement And Appreciation That We Utter Now, But The Person To Whom We Have Spoken Them May Treasure Them And Repeat Them To Themselves Over A Lifetime

If You Want To Know How To Make People Shun You And Laugh At You Behind Your Back And Even Despise You, Here Is The Recipe: Never Listen To Anyone For Long. Talk Incessantly About Yourself. If You Have An Idea While The Other Person Is Talking, Don't Wait For Him Or Her To Finish: Bust Right In And Interrupt In The Middle Of A Sentence.

Always Avoid The Acute Angle.

Men Of Age Object Too Much, Consult Too Long, Adventure Too Little, Repent Too Soon, And Seldom Drive Business Home To The Full Period, But Content Themselves With A Mediocrity Of Success.

Remember That The People You Are Talking To Are A Hundred Times More Interested In Themselves And Their Wants And Problems Than They Are In You And Your Problems.

We Can All Endure Disaster And Tragedy, And Triumph Over Them-if We Have To. We May Not Think We Can, But We Have Surprisingly Strong Inner Resources That Will See Us Through If We Will Only Make Use Of Them. We Are Stronger Than We Think.

Fear Is The Result Of A Lack Of Confidence. A Lack Of Confidence Is The Result Of Not Knowing What You Can Do. A Lack Of Knowing What You Can Do Is Caused By A Lack Of Experience. A Lack Of Experience Is Caused By A Lack Of Doing Something New.

An Old Man Was Asked What Had Robbed Him Of Joy In His Life. His Reply Was, "things That Never Happened."

Most Of Us Have Far More Courage Than We Ever Dreamed We Possessed.

When You're Afraid Keep Your Mind On What You Have To Do. And If You Have Been Thoroughly Prepared You Will Not Be Afraid.

Tell Me What Gives A Man Or Woman Their Greatest Pleasure And I'll Tell You Their Philosophy Of Life.

If You Can Be Kind And Considerate For One Day, Then You Can Be For Another. It Won't Cost You A Penny In The World. Begin Today.

Make A Man Laugh A Good Hearty Laugh, And You've Paved The Way For Friendship. When A Man Laughs With You, He, To Some Extent, Likes You.

Everyday Is A New Life To A Wise Man.

We Can't Win Friends With A Scowling Face And An Upbraiding Voice.

Our Fatigue Is Often Caused Not By Work, But By Worry, Frustration And Resentment.

Naturalness Is The Easiest Thing In The World To Acquire, If You Will Forget Yourself-forget About The Impression You Are Trying To Make.

If You And I Want To Stir Up A Resentment Tomorrow That May Rankle Across The Decades And Endure Until Death, Just Let Us Indulge In A Little Stinging Criticism - No Matter How Certain We Are That It Is Justified.

...be Grateful For What You Have To Be Thankful For Instead Of Complaining About The Little Things That Annoy You.

In Short, We Lose The Freshness And Spontaneity Of True Conversation. These Are Areas In Which Everyone Interested In Self-improvement Will Seek To Improve.

He Who Treads Softly Goes Far.

If Some People Are So Hungry For A Feeling Of Importance That They Actually Go Insane To Get It, Imagine What Miracle You And I Can Achieve By Giving People Honest Appreciation This Side Of Insanity.

Do The Very Best You Can.

Our Thoughts Make Us What We Are.

You Can't Win An Argument. You Can't Because If You Lose It, You Lose It; And If You Win It, You Lose It.

Always Have Something To Say. The Man Who Has Something To Say And Who Is Known Never To Speak Unless He Has, Is Sure To Be Listened To.�

Every Day I Pray. I Yield Myself To God And The Tensions And Anxieties Go Out Of Me And Peace And Power Come In.

People Support A World They Helped Create.

Don't Ask A Man What Is Important To Him. Watch How He Spends His Time

People Like People Who Help Them Like Themselves.

Trending Author

Michael Rosenbaum

Category