"Never ask advice from someone who has something at stake or something to lose from your decision. The more objective the person is the greater value you should place on the input."

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Source : Dr. David J. Lieberman, Ph.D. (2010). “Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation”, p.155, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

David J. Lieberman

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“I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.”
“I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.”
“When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.”
“When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.”
“From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he neâ€™er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accursâ€™d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispinâ€™s day.”
“As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.”
“A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.”
“Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.”

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