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Tell A Child, A Husband Or An Employee That He Is Stupid Or Dumb At A Certain Thing, That He Has No Gift For It, And That He Is Doing It All Wrong And You Have Destroyed Almost Every Incentive To Try To Improve. But Use The Opposite Technique, Be Liberal With Encouragement; Make The Thing Seem Easy To Do, Let The Other Person Know That You Have Faith In His Ability To Do It, That He Has An Undeveloped Flair For It - And He Will Practice Until The Dawn Comes In At The Window In Order To Excel.

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Tell A Child, A Husband Or An Employee That He Is Stupid Or Dumb At A Certain Thing, That He Has No Gift For It, And That He Is Doing It All Wrong And You Have Destroyed Almost Every Incentive To Try To Improve. But Use The Opposite Technique, Be Liberal With Encouragement; Make The Thing Seem Easy To Do, Let The Other Person Know That You Have Faith In His Ability To Do It, That He Has An Undeveloped Flair For It - And He Will Practice Until The Dawn Comes In At The Window In Order To Excel.

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Try Honest To See Things From The Other Person's Point Of View.

If You Tell Me How You Get Your Feeling Of Importance, I'll Tell You What You Are.

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.

Let The Other Person Save Face.

Win Friends And Influence People

In Fact, Merely Writing The Facts On A Piece Of Paper And Stating Our Problem Clearly Goes A Long Way Toward Helping Us To Reach A Sensible Decision.

If You Want To Be Enthusiastic, Act Enthusiastic.

You Are Merely Not Feeling Equal To The Tasks Before You.

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.

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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Believe That You Will Succeed, And You Will.

People Support A World They Helped Create.

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You Are Going To Survive. And Good Things Are Going To Start To Happen Again. And One Day You Are Going To Look Back And This Will Not Even Be Such A Bad Thing

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If You Want To Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over The Beehive.

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Always Avoid The Acute Angle.

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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

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If You Are Wrong, Admit It Quickly And Emphatically.

Influencing People

Win Friends And Influence People

Begin With Praise And Honest Appreciation. Call Attention To People's Mistakes Indirectly. Talk About Your Own Mistakes Before Criticizing The Other Person. Ask Questions Instead Of Giving Direct Orders. Make The Fault Easy To Correct. Make The Other Person Happy About Doing What You Suggest.

Take A Chance! All Life Is A Chance

Overcoming Addiction

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.

The Trouble With Most Of Us Is That We Keep Our Eyes Closed To Opportunities That Thrust Themselves At Us; And Rare Is The Man Who Searches For His Opportunity Or Sees One Even When He Stumbles Over It.

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

Today Is Our Most Precious Possession. It Is Our Only Sure Possession.

Cherish Every Moment

Live In The Moment

One Of The Most Tragic Things I Know About Human Nature Is That All Of Us Tend To Put Off Living. We Are All Dreaming Of Some Magical Rose Garden Over The Horizon Instead Of Enjoying The Roses That Are Blooming Outside Our Windows Today.

Create Happiness For Others.

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.

When Ill Luck Besets Us, To Ease The Tension We Have Only To Remember That Happiness Is Relative. The Next Time You Are Tempted To Grumble About What Has Happened To You, Why Not Pause And Be Glad That It Is No Worse Than It Is.

When Fate Hands You A Lemon, Make Lemonade.

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.

No Matter What Happens, Always Be Yourself.

Always Be Yourself

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

The Sure-thing Boat Never Gets Far From Shore.

Will And Determination

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

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.

Our Thoughts Make Us What We Are.

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?

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