nikki's bookshelf: currently-reading en-US Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:35:54 -0800 60 nikki's bookshelf: currently-reading 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[How to Make Friends and Influence People & How to Stop Worrying and Start Living]]> 28821487 How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first best-selling self-help books ever published. It can enable you to make friends quickly and easily, help you to win people to your way of thinking, increase your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done, as well as enable you to win new clients, new customers.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - The book's goal is to lead the reader to a more enjoyable and fulfilling life, helping them to become more aware of, not only themselves, but others around them. Carnegie tries to address the everyday nuances of living, in order to get the reader to focus on the more important aspects of life.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), a massive bestseller that remains popular today.
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"I came home to my lonely room each night with a sick headache-a headache bred and fed by disappointment, worry, bitterness, and rebellion. I was rebelling because the dreams I had nourished back in my college days had turned into nightmares. Was this life? Was this the vital adventure to which I had looked forward so eagerly?"]]>
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<![CDATA[Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?]]> 1705415 239 Lualhati Bautista 9711900971 nikki 0 currently-reading 4.17 1983 Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?
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The Picture of Dorian Gray 5297 Apaixonado pela sua própria imagem na tela, Dorian deseja que esses traços imutáveis de beleza fiquem para sempre no seu rosto e que seja o retrato a envelhecer. É este o parti-pris narcisista, ou fáustico, do romance de Oscar Wilde.]]> 272 Oscar Wilde nikki 0 currently-reading 4.13 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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