Dale Carnegie Quotes
When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.
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In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.
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With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
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When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.
