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"Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them."
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"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"
"We've all been in the middle of a conversation and the person with whom we are speaking breaks eye contact, appears distracted, glazes over, or looks elsewhere. Their simple eye movement can quickly break down communications by making us feel ignored, dismissed, or rejected. For some, it may be accidental and unintentional, while for others, avoiding eye contact is on purpose."
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."
"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"
"I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know."
"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
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"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."
"I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business."
"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."
"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets."
"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
"The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle."
"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."
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