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Smile at people everywhere you go. Don’t just give them one of those half-smirk/head nod things. Raise your eyebrows, show those teeth, and chuckle while you smile. Next time you’re at the store, give a full-hearted smile to at least three complete strangers. You’ll be amazed at what this does for them and for you. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#confidence #friendliness #making-friends #self-esteem #self-worth

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#diplomacy #inspirational #communication

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#information-age #internet #knowledge #politics #truth

When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren’t. Stop focusing on all of the physical features that you think people won’t like about you. Stop focusing on your inabilities or lack of talent. Instead, focus on those physical features that you know people already love about you. Focus on your abilities and the talents that you do have. You have been blessed with all of the above, and that makes you worth getting to know in my book. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#confidence #friendliness #making-friends #self-esteem #self-worth

You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#doing #hard #just #know #sometimes

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#compare #finding #i #jazz #me

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#human-nature #humanity #repetition #tragedy #age

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#steve-jobs #courage

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#i #i can #joy #longer #me

All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius. ↗

— P.D. James

#romance-novels #writing #age