Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.
- Topic: Life, Negotiation, Persuasion
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.
But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.