10 quotes about people skills 20/01/2011
I enjoy looking for inspirational quotes for these posts. I feel sort of, well, inspired!! I hope you enjoy these I found this week. The less you speak, the more you will hear. Alexander Solshenitsen No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Aesop As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one. Dale Carnegie I make progress by having people around who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am. Henry J. Kaiser The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours. Beatrice Vincent People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. Abigail Van Buren Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives. Stephen Covey If you want to please people who are mistaken, you can't simply tell the truth. You're always going to have to add some sort of padding to protect their misconceptions from bumping against reality. Paul Graham Add Comment Top 10 quotes about working for a living! 20/09/2010
Let's start the week on a positive note. I dug out 10 quotes about work for us to mull over:
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![]() 10. Life's real failure is when you do not realise how close you were to success when you gave up. (Thomas Edison, right) |




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