Donald Laird famous quotes

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
-- Donald Laird

#Encouragement #Communication #Ability

The basis of all education is to learn by doing.
-- Donald Laird

#Education #Bases

Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him to be useful and to find satisfaction in his usefulness.
-- Donald Laird

#Self Esteem #Skills #People

Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important.
-- Donald Laird

#Self Esteem #Skills #People

To handle a hard situation, try a soft answer.
-- Donald Laird

#Trying #Answers #Situation

Be thankful not only that you are an individual but also that others are different. The world needs all kinds, but it also needs to respect and use that individuality.
-- Donald Laird

#Being Thankful #Individuality #Different

To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.
-- Donald Laird

#Elderly #Years #Forget

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

Communication is an offering. When you tell someone your truth, you must release your expectation of what the other person should do with it. They may thank you profusely, love you forever, argue with you, or ignore you. It doesn't matter. Of course we hope the gift will be received with appreciation and thanks. But if it isn't we must not dictate. We've done our part, and we must trust the universe to do the rest.

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.