Dale Carnegie Quotes
Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
Quotes to Explore
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
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You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.
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I think love and obsession are almost one in the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.
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I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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I mean, I know thousands of people died and everything, but if it happened today, there's just no excuse. They'd be much safer inside a movie theater watching one of my movies instead of burning alive in a collapsing skyscraper.
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
