Dale Carnegie · 224 pages
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“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”
― Dale Carnegie, quote from How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
“Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.”
― Dale Carnegie, quote from How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
“When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.”
― Dale Carnegie, quote from How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
“Think and Thank.” Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.”
― Dale Carnegie, quote from How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
“Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.”
― Dale Carnegie, quote from How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
“measure my accomplishments,” said Daniel W. Josselyn, “not by how tired I am at the end of the day, but how tired I am not.” He said, “When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.”
― Dale Carnegie, quote from How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
“Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.”
― Dale Carnegie, quote from How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
“Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.”
― quote from The MacArthur Daily Bible: Read through the Bible in one year, with notes from John MacArthur
“Our rulers, who rule our symbols, and so rule a symbolic class of life, impose their own infantilism on our instituitions, educational methods, and doctrines. This leads to maladjustment of the incoming generations which, being born into, are forced to develop under the un-natural (for man) semantic conditions imposed on them. In turn, they produce leaders afflicted with the old animalistic limitations. The vicious circle is completed; it results in a general state of human un-sanity, reflected again in our instituitions. And so it goes, on and on.”
― Alfred Korzybski, quote from Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
“WE THINK OF CAIN AS THE ONE WHO KILLED HIS BROTHER, but who else was around to kill? They were the first two born. Cain killed what was available. The story has nothing to do with brothers.”
― David Vann, quote from Goat Mountain
“We parked behind the building and came through the less utilized handicapped entrance. Mom had rods and screws molded to her spine from a work injury years prior. She was a walking tin man, awkward gait included, guaranteed to set off the annoying alarm on the metal detectors. They waved a wand over her instead. She would nod and apologize for the inconvenience to the guards, but the smirk on her face absorbed all the pitied glances thrown her way. Stroudsburg”
― K.L. Randis, quote from Spilled Milk
“You know what I love about you? You can go from cussing sailor to poet laureate in three seconds without batting an eyelash. It's quite impressive.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
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