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- William James
- John D. Rockefeller
- Willis H. Carrier
- Byrd
- Laurence Jones
- George Rona
- Stanton
- Peary
- Dale Carnegie
- Tolstoy
- Epictetus
- Dr. Alexis Carrel
- Jack Dempsey
- Franklin
- Bill
- Gene Autry
- Kipling
- William Osier
- Gershwin
- Connie Mack
- Gilbert
- Schopenhauer
- Sullivan
- Edith
- Lawrence
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“"Think and Thank!"”
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“Whether in war or peace, the chief difference between good thinking and bad thinking is this: good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.”
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“Learning is an active process. We learn by doing. If you don't you will forget them quickly. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”
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“Our peace of mind and the joy we get out of living depends not on where we are, or what we have, or who we are, but solely upon our mental attitude. Outward conditions have very little to do with it.”
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“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.”
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“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
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the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
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good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.
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1. Ask yourself, “What is the worst that can possibly happen?” 2. Prepare to accept it if you have to. 3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.
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“1. Writing down precisely what I am worrying about. “2. Writing down what I can do about it. “3. Deciding what to do. “4. Starting immediately to carry out that decision.”
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acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.”
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“If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.”
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“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall,” wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. “Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
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‘Every day is a new life to a wise man.’ I typed that sentence out and pasted it on the windshield of my car, where I saw it every minute I was driving. I found it wasn’t so hard to live only one day at a time. I learned to forget the yesterdays and to not think of the tomorrows. Each morning I said to myself, ‘Today is a new life.’
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In the spring of 1871, a young man picked up a book and read twenty-one words that had a profound effect on his future.
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- Dale Carnegie (Author)
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- Dewey: 152
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