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Dale Carnegie
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something
instead of lying there
and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of
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You
are something new in this world. Be glad of it.
Make the most of
what
nature gave you. In the last analysis, all art is
autobiographical. You can sing
only what you are. You can paint only what you
are. You must be what your
experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made
you. For better
or for worse, you must cultivate your own
little
garden. For better or for worse,
you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of
life.
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You can sing only what you are. You can paint only
what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your
heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play
your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
If you
want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. If only
the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the
riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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?
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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.
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Today
is the only time we can possibly live.
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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. |
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The
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your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly
today.
That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future. |
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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. |
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The expression one
wears on one's face is far more
important than the clothes one wears on one's back. |
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Be
wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
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Dale
Carnegie
(November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955) was a pioneer in
self-improvement, salesmanship, and corporate training programs,
and became famous for courses he developed that emphasized public
speaking and interpersonal skills. Born in poverty on a farm
in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and
Influence People, first published in 1936, which has sold over
15 million copies through many editions and remains popular
today. He also wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln titled Lincoln
the Unknown and several other books.
Carnegie was an
early proponent of what is now called responsibility
assumption. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is
possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's
reaction to them.
Born in 1888 in
Maryville, Missouri, Carnegie was a poor farmer's boy, apparently
not seeing a train until he was twelve years old. In his
teens, though still having to get up at 4 a.m. every day to milk
his parents' cows, he managed to get educated at the State
Teacher's College in Warrensburg. His first job after
college was selling correspondence courses to ranchers, then he
moved on to selling bacon, soap, and lard for Armour &
Company. He was successful to the point of making his sales
territory, southern Omaha, the national leader for the firm.
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