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Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
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Motivational Speaker
Psychologist
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Maryville
Missouri
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A good deed, said the prophet Mohammed, is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another. Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.
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Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.
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A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
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Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
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A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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People like people who help them like themselves.
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If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
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Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.
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If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!
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Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
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Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.
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