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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

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
Teacher
Writer
Maryville
Missouri
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
Dale Harbison Carnagey
Dale Harbison Carnegie
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Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
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Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.
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If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.
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Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts
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Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.
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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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Let the other person save face.
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You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?
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No matter what happens, always be yourself.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.
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The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
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Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
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We talk a lot about the importance of physical exercise to wake us up out of the half sleep in which so many of us walk around. But we need, even more, some spiritual and mental exercises every morning to stir us into action. Give yourself a pep talk every day.
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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
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