Dale Carnegie's Book is Common Sense but I couldn't see it before my break through because I thought that I was important. He actually goes on to say that people who become insane get a feeling of importance from that insanity. I suppose my story has given me something to write about and the Personality Zone has allowed me to feel important. I'ts true for me that I need to be heard and perhaps I never was and that was why I became insane.
I love the references in the book to the Ameri…
If you have fallen from my top friends list, please don't be offended. I have decided to have a reshuffle so the people who couldn't fit can now have some fresh air. I wonder if I should suggest smaller pictures to Tech Support to get every body in. I'd like to thank all my friends here on personality zone for being my friends, for contacting me and for allowing me to contact them.
I have just finished reading ' How to win friends and influence people' by Dale Carnegie. I have only 120 seco…
'It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.' Ambrose Bierce
'Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art.' Marcel Proust
'We are all born mad. Some remain so.' Samuel Beckett
'And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.' Thomas Moore
' If you tal…
"You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should avoid most now....Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself wheth…
Well the Dutch were unceremoniously dumped out of the European Soccer Championships. I keep thinking about Amsterdam Coffeeshops. It's a Germany v Spain Final. I'm sat in a public library and they're having trouble with their printers. Public libraries. It's where I spend much of my time. The Central and the local branch. What I have noticed though is actually how noisy they have become. I feel like turning around to the librarians and shouting Sshhhh. They seem to have lost any …
