Les Giblin · 192 pages
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“You yourself are more responsible for how you are accepted than anyone else. Many people worry about what other people will think of them. But few realize that the world forms its opinion of us, largely from the opinion we have of ourselves.”
“People judge you not only by the value you put on yourself…they judge you by the value you put on other things: your job, your work, even your competition.”
“Negative talk and negative opinions give a bad impression.”
“Never knock the other fellow or the other fellow’s product if you want to make a good impression. Instead, boost your own product.”
“But we like to have somebody that we can be ourselves with, someone we can afford to be ourselves with, because we know we will be accepted.”
“No one has the power to reform another person, but by liking the other person as he is, you give him the power to change himself.”
“You have heard on the radio or television or in the movies the words “lights, camera, action.”
“Remember that your very first words, actions, and attitudes invariably sound the keynote.”
“So,Miss Fitt," Clarence said once we turned onto a tree-lined road beside the river, "you are no doubt wondering why I invited you out."
I swatted the ribbon from my eyes. "And here I assumed it was my unsurpassable good looks."
He chuckled. "That was, of course, part of my motivation."
"Only part?" I slid my gaze left and watched him from the corner of my eye. "Well then,the rest of your reason must be that bribe you mentioned the other evening."
"Something like that.”
“Make every kiss a celebration, throw a party for every one.”
“Poor communication doesn't disconnet souls. It's the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.”
“God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.”
“İnsanların çoğu aslında delidir, hayır şöyle demeliyiz, çeşitli şekillerde delirmeyen kimse yoktur, bu yüzden zorunluluk benzerini benzeriyle buluşturur.”
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