Dale Carnegie Quotes

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

Something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me.