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"Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what's most important."
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"I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy."

"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."

"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."

"Your EYES not only see everything around you AS IS, but also PROJECT what you wish look in this world!"

"To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind."

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."

"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."

"It seemed natural; natural to the moment's peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from everything, immediate, but disconnected, like a bright island in a wall of fog, the heightened, unquestioning reality one feels when one is drunk."

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
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"Most people haven't set themselves any course with regards to their life. They have no idea whether or not they are being blown in any useful direction whatsoever. They are just at the whim of wherever the winds of life take them."

"Customers do not want a lecture from you and they certainly don't want some juvenile in a bad suit forcing his wares upon them."

"If you don't earn their trust at the beginning, they sure as hell won't trust you with their money at the end."

"Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?"

"In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong."

"If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my product or service we'll have a meaningful conversation about it and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don't feel anything. Nothing at all."

"Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing."

"I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone. Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path there at all."
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