If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
Stop worrying and start living.
You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.
I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.
Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.
Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.
As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?
I'm not a politician, She says evenly. If I want to be one, I'll run for office. Susan Sarandon, whom I know and love, is a fantastic actress. It's her right as an American to say whatever she wants. [But] just because you're rich and famous doesn't qualify you to make political statements. I don't put my opinions out there to influence people. You have alot of influence. And sometimes I feel it's undeserved influence.
You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.
I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.
Many media commercials encourage us to believe that if we buy a certain product, we can be physically appealing, or popular, or successful. According to the commercial message, it may be easy to make friends and influence people if we simply do what we're told to do. It would be wonderful if that were true, but unfortunately life does not seem to work that way. What is inside of us can be much more important and influential than what is outside.
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.
I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.
She didn't smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that would involve an innate desire to win friends and influence people.
(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.)
If I had the ability to influence people all over the world just by speaking or writing, one of my objectives would be find out how America became special and then tell everybody.
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
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