If Some People Are So Hungry For

It Was This Desire For A Feeling Of Importance That Led An Uneducated, Poverty-stricken Grocery Clerk To Study Some Law Books He Found In The Bottom Of A Barrel Of Household Plunder That He Had Bought For Fifty Cents. You Have Probably Heard Of This Grocery Clerk. His Name Was Lincoln.

I Once Succumbed To The Fad Of Fasting And Went For Six Days And Nights Without Eating. It Wasn't Difficult. I Was Less Hungry At The End Of The Sixth Day Than I Was At The End Of The Second. Yet I Know, As You Know, People Who Would Think They Had Committed A Crime If They Let Their Families Or Employees Go For Six Days Without Food; But They Will Let Them Go For Six Days, And Six Weeks, And Sometimes Sixty Years Without Giving Them The Hearty Appreciation That They Crave Almost As Much As They Crave Food.

Check Up Each Week On The Progress You Are Making. Ask Yourself What Mistakes You Have Made, What Improvement, What Lessons You Have Learned For The Future.

The Trouble With Most Of Us Is That We Keep Our Eyes Closed To Opportunities That Thrust Themselves At Us; And Rare Is The Man Who Searches For His Opportunity Or Sees One Even When He Stumbles Over It.

In Talking With People, Don't Begin By Discussing The Things On Which You Differ. Begin By Emphasizing - And Keep On Emphasizing - The Things On Which You Agree. Keep Emphasizing, If Possible, That You Are Both Striving For The Same End And That Your Only Difference Is One Of Method And Not Of Purpose.