“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Paranoid vampires don’t understand the concept of trust. They never seem to realize that trust is supposed to be in their own minds, rather than in the actions of other people. Consequently, if you’re close to one of these vampires, you’ll have to re-earn his or her trust every hour on the hour. This is especially true if your relationship is sexual. A Paranoid vampire’s idea of foreplay is 20 minutes of questioning about exactly what you were thinking the last time you made love.”
― Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry
― Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry
“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Buddha said: ‘Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,’ and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person’s viewpoint.”
― How to Win Friends and Influence People
― How to Win Friends and Influence People
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