Quotes about Empathy

PRINCIPLE 3 Talk about your own mistakes before criticising the other person.

SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU PRINCIPLE 1 Become genuinely interested in other people. PRINCIPLE 2 Smile. PRINCIPLE 3 Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. PRINCIPLE 4 Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. PRINCIPLE 5 Talk in terms of the other person's interests. PRINCIPLE 6 Make the other person feel important—and do it sincerely.

most people will react favorably to your proposals if they feel that you admire them for being honest, unselfish, and fair.

Even if we can't love our enemies, let's at least love ourselves. Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health and our looks. As Shakespeare put it: Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.

Schwab says that he was paid this salary largely because of his ability to deal with people.

One of his favourite quotations was 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.

PRINCIPLE 1—Become genuinely interested in other people. PRINCIPLE 2—Smile. PRINCIPLE 3—Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. PRINCIPLE 4—Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. PRINCIPLE 5—Talk in terms of the other person's interests. PRINCIPLE 6—Make the other person feel important-and do it sincerely.

You will never get into trouble by admitting that you may be wrong. That will stop all argument and inspire your opponent to be just as fair and open and broad-minded as you are. It will make him want to admit that he, too, may be wrong.

I am going to meet people today who talk too much—people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn't imagine a world without such people.

The bottom line is that you must become genuinely interested in others before you can ever expect anyone to be interested in you. "All things being equal," said author John Maxwell in a recent interview, "people do business with people they like.

We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.