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Anybody who can still do at 60 what he was
doing at 20, wasn’t doing much at 20.
* Jimmy Townsend

Meditation is in truth higher than thought. The earth seems
to rest in silent meditation; and the waters and the
mountains and the sky and the heavens seem all to be in
meditation. Whenever a man attains greatness on this earth,
he has his reward according to his meditation.
* Upanishads

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something
than educate people and hope they were entertained.
* Walt Disney

If you don’t have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life.
Beliefs are like the foundation of a building,
and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
* Alfred A. Montapert

Often what we choose for our lives is
the choice for the next generation too.
* Unknown

The display of status symbols is usually a result of low self-esteem.
The self-confident person can afford to project a modest image.
* H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire.
* George Gordon N Byron

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors;
Amid these earthly damps
What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers
May be heaven’s distant lamps.
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Remembering names is an important social skill — mastering this skill can offer a distinct advantage in your professional and personal lives. Previous blog articles discussed a 5R (Resolve, Review, Relate, Repeat, Record) technique to help remember names and a technique to remember names around tables in meetings.

Apologize and Ask

Despite your best efforts, on occasion you may not be able recollect the name of another person, even if you were introduced minutes earlier. In such cases, simply ask, “I am sorry, I forgot your name.” Do not elaborate or try to qualify. Alternately, ask for the person’s business card if appropriate

Another familiar situation is when you run into someone you know–you can remember several details of the person and your prior interactions,–but cannot recall the person’s name. This person may assume that you know his/her name and hence may not self-introduce. You may go through an entire conversation trying to call to mind this person’s name. Simply say, “Forgive me. I remember we met at last year’s sales conference. I can remember everything about you, but, I can’t recall your name. Could you please repeat it for me?”

Introduce a Third Person

Yet another technique is to introduce a third person. Say, at an office holiday party, you fail to remember the name of a colleague. Turn to your colleague and say, “I don’t think you have met my husband, Frank.” Frank and your colleague exchange greetings: “Hi, I am Frank. Nice to meet you.” Your colleague reveals her name: “Hi, I am Isabella David.”

At any rate, avoid embarrassing yourself by using an assumed or a wrong name. Apologize and ask the person to state or confirm his/names.

***See other articles related to remembering names, personality development, networking, building relationships, people skills, interpersonal skills

Marriage is an empty box.
It remains empty unless you put in more than you take out.
* H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I had the ambition to not only go farther than man
had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go.
* James Cook

This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.
* The Dalai Lama

Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on
the condition of life in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of good conscience, good health,
occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
* Thomas Jefferson

We can choose what we do but we cannot
choose the consequences of what we do.
* Richard G. Scott

Laughter has no foreign accent.
* Paul Lowney

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a new ending.
* Carl Bard

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
* Voltaire

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The winds of grace are blowing all the time.
You have only to raise your sail.
* Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

It is probably a sound definition of character to say that
it is habitual self-mastery toward good ends….
Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure,
its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when
we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence
of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will.
* Leo J. Muir

The role of the Director is to create a space where
the actor or actress can become more than they’ve
ever been before, more than they’ve dreamed of being.
* Robert Altman

People, even more than things,
have to be restored, renewed, revived,
reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
* Audrey Hepburn

Our business in life is not to succeed,
but to continue to fail in good spirits.
* Robert Louis Stephenson

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
* Oliver Wendell Holmes

For myself I am an optimist -
it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
* Winston Churchill

When we forgive someone,
the knots are untied and the past is released.
* Reshad Feild

I feel that the greatest reward for
doing is the opportunity to do more.
* Jonas Salk

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Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It’s the way it is.
The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
* Unknown

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know.
Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
* Buckminster Fuller

Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass…
* Owen Feltham

The positive thinker sees the invisible,
feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
* Unknown

Miracles rest not so much upon faces or voices
Or great healing powers coming to us from afar off,
But upon our perceptions being made finer so that, for a moment,
Our eyes can see and our ears can hear what there is about us always.
* Willa Cather

The real worth of man is not in himself alone, but what he stands for.
* Sterling W. Sill

You are not ever given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
* Richard Bach

Everyone lives by selling something.
* Robert Louis Stevenson

You can complain that roses have thorns;
or rejoice that thorns have roses.
* Ziggy

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent
only on the full use of our creative imagination.
* Ruth Ross

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TODAY
Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today. Let us begin.
* Mother Theresa

Conceit is a strange disease.
It makes everyone else sick except
the person who has it.
* Unknown

The three things most difficult are:
to keep a secret, to forget an injury,
and to make good use of leisure.
* Chilo

A ship in a port is safe,
but that’s not what ships are built for.
* Unknown

You don’t have to know what to do.
You have to do what you know.
* Unknown

Patience in the present,
faith in the future,
and joy in the doing.
* George Perera, MD

Live every day as if it is your last -
and one day you’ll be right.
* Unknown

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
* William James

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly,
and who can say to himself, “I shall today be uppermost.”
* Confucius

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Live more simply, so that you can find
time to enjoy the little pleasures of life.
* Unknown

Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
* Albert Einstein

Paradise is always where love dwells.
* Jean Paul Richter

A list of man’s enemies is often a truer guide
to his character than a list of his friends.
* Unknown

As the sun that beholds the world is untouched by earthly impurities,
so the Spirit that is in all things is untouched by external sufferings.
* Upanishads

In the face of uncertainty,
there is nothing wrong with hope.
* O. Carl Simonton

To err is human, to forgive divine.
* Alexander Pope

Life brings tears, smiles, and memories: the tears dry,
the smile fades, but the memories live on forever.
* Anonymous

If you place a low value on yourself,
you can be sure the world will not overprice you.
* Unknown

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Happiness, to me, lies in stretching, to the farthest boundaries
of which we are capable, the resources of the mind and heart.
* Leo Calvin Rosten

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
* Leo Buscaglia

Triumph is the extra umph added to the try.
* Unknown

Mothers are not paid for their work because it is priceless.
* Unknown

In the end, management doesn’t change culture.
Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.
* Lou Gerstner

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery,
by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
* Cicero

Identify your strengths and weaknesses.
Learn new skills to achieve your goals in life.
* Unknown

What is ours to do comes so easily,
because from the very beginning it has always been there.
* Michael Jones

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.
* Thomas Aquinas

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
* Mahatma Gandhi

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
* Unknown

Life is a long lesson in humility.
* James M. Barrie

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing
called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it,
you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
* Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is the greatest gift we can give or be given.
* Unknown

Use the talents you possess;
For the woods would be very silent,
If no birds sang except for the very best.
* Unknown

The only thing to do with good advice is
pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
* Oscar Wilde

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
* Thomas N. Carruther

Man succeeds because he believes he can,
or he fails because he thinks he will.
* Unknown

The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.
* Tom Bradley

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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
* Will Rogers

There was a definite process by which one made
people into friends, and it involved talking to them
and listening to them for hours at a time.
* Rebecca West

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
* Benjamin Franklin

Here, you have the remote.
We’re lost. Let’s stop and ask for directions.
Why don’t we go and see a romantic film for a change.
No, let me take out the rubbish.
I’ll just separate the white clothes from the coloured ones.
Isn’t it my turn to change the baby?
I’ll turn off the rugby so we can talk.
* Unknown

It is easy for others to put you down
when they are simply agreeing with you.
* Unknown

Life is like a book.
You can’t look at the beginning and the end and know what
it’s all about. You have to live it all the way through.
* Unknown

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
* Juan Montalvo

We must not cease from exploration and the end of
all our exploring will be to arrive where
we began and to know the place for the first time.
* T. S. Eliot

Friendship without self-interest is
one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
* James F. Byrnes

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