"One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status."

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Source : "The Secret Language Code". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. August 16, 2011.

James W. Pennebaker

#People Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Email Quotes

“People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.”
“I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.”
“With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.”

Source : John Dickinson (1891). “The Life and Writings of John Dickinson”
“The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.”
“People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.”
“I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.”
“All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.”
“Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.”

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