Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.