Quotes About Engagement

I have asked thousands of business people to smile at someone every hour of the day for a week and then come to class and talk about the results.

Dogs know by some divine instinct that you can make more friends in minutes by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in months of trying to get other people interested in you.

When we are right, let's try to win people gently and tactfully to our way of thinking, and when we are wrong – and that will be surprisingly often, if we are honest with ourselves – let's admit our mistakes quickly and with enthusiasm. Not only will that technique produce astonishing results; but, believe it or not, it is a lot more fun, under the circumstances, than trying to defend oneself.

Marking and underscoring a book makes it more interesting, and far easier to review rapidly.

For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Always begin and end the message on a positive note rather than on a pessimistic or detached one.

Asking questions not only makes an order more palatable; it often stimulates the creativity of the persons whom you ask. People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.

Principle 1 Become genuinely interested in other people.

I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking.

it is utterly impossible for any human mind, no matter how brilliant, to think of more than one thing at any given time.

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

Electrical Manufacturers Association. Isn't that so?' 'He agreed it was. I had gotten my first "yes." '"The Electrical Manufacturers Association regulations say that a properly designed motor may have a temperature of 72 degrees Fahrenheit above room temperature. Is that correct?

No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold something or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts. Take the case of Eugene Wesson.

Foresee how you are going to begin when the mind is fresh to grasp every word you utter. Foresee what impression you are going to leave last—when nothing else follows to obliterate it.

Most people trying to win others to their way of thinking do too much talking themselves. Let the other people talk themselves out. They know more about their business and problems than you do. So ask them questions. Let them tell you a few things.

from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white.

Comrade, you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.

People usually told him the same joke two or three times.

In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.

Idle women are always ready to mind other people's business.

If a book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

I celebrate art that shakes complacency by the shoulders and shouts, 'Wake up!

I spent the remainder of the visit staring stupidly at the TV, answering Grandma's questions in single syllables and making faces at her cooking.