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The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.
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You can change only what people know, not what they do.
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If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.
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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational
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The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy.
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
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Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.
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There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.
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The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.
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I made a list of skills in which I think every adult should gain a working knowledge. I wouldn't expect you to become a master of any, but mastery isn't necessary. Luck has a good chance of finding you if you become merely good in most of these areas. I'll make a case for each one, but here's the preview list. Public speaking Psychology Business Writing Accounting Design (the basics) Conversation Overcoming Shyness Second language Golf Prop..
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Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.
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A goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, its a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal. If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and dire..
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What does it mean to be yourself?" he asked. "If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you're doing that already. If it means to act like you're exempt from society's influence, that's the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to 'be yourself' is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for li..
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Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.
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If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power.
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The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day
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Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.
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The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.
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Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are.
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The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.
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it is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation. When belief does not control your most important decisions, it is not belief in the underlying reality, it is belief in the usefulness of believing.
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The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends.
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Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information
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The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.
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If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.
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In most groups the craziest person is in control. It starts because no one wants the problems that come from pissing off a crazy person. It's just smarter and easier sometimes to let the crazy person have his or her way.
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Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.
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Avoid career traps such as pursuing jobs that require you to sell your limited supply of time while preparing you for nothing better.
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Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality. What's real to you is what you imagine and what you feel. If you manage your illusions wisely, you might get what you want, but you won't necessarily understand why it worked.
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Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition that you don't know as much as you thought you knew.
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Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.
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A woman needs to be told that you would sacrifice anything for her. A man needs to be told he is being useful. When the man or woman strays from that formula, the other loses trust. When trust is lost, communication falls apart.
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Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive.
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How can one part be more important if each part is completely necessary?
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One of the most important tricks for maximizing your productivity involves matching your mental state to the task.
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The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower."
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The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success
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Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality?
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Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational.
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Positivity is far more than a mental preference. It changes your brain, literally, and it changes the people around you. It's the nearest thing we have to magic.
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The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.
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Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt.
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It is a wondrous human characteristic to be able to slip into and out of idiocy many times a day without noticing the change or accidentally killing innocent bystanders in the process.
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Sometimes what seems to be a difference in opinions is in fact just a difference in definitions.
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