I believe that everything in moderation is best.
The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.
Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
Presuasion is what you say immediately before you deliver your message that leverages your success tremendously.
A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.
The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.
What new psychology suggests, it's the factor that is top of consciousness at the moment before you make that economic decision that will win the day.
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please do not do as I request if there is any taint of fear of punishment if you don't. Please do not do as I request to buy my love, that, is hoping that I will love you more if you do. Please do not do as I request if you will feel guilty if you don't. Please do not do as I request if you will feel shameful. And certainly do not do as I request out of any sense of duty or obligation.
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.
To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.