Quotation Collection

Your job as a conversationalist is to keep asking questions and keep looking for something you have in common with the stranger, or something that interests you enough to wade into the topic. In my entire life I have never met a stranger who didn't have some fascinating life experiences that spilled out if I asked the right questions. Everyone is interesting if you make the situation feel safe. Scott Adams

• people skills
• conversation

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. George Bernard Shaw

• food

Happiness is the natural state for most people whenever they feel healthy, have flexible schedules, and expect the future to be good. Scott Adams

• happiness

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The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer. James Carroll

• sacrifice