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Pushing to the Front
Orison Swett Marden · Passages from the same work, in order.
Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 481
"Clothes don't make the man, but good clothes have got many a man a good job. If you have twenty-five dollars, and want a job, it is better to…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 482
"While the routine of application is in every case strictly adhered to, the fact remains that the most important element in an applicant's chance for…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 483
"Wherever a marked personal care is exhibited for the cleanliness of the person and for neatness in dress, there is also almost always found extra…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 484
No young man or woman who wishes to retain that most potent factor of the successful life, self-respect, can afford to be negligent in the matter…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 485
From every point of view it pays well to dress well. The knowledge that we are becomingly clothed acts like a mental tonic. Very few men or women are…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 486
Many young men and women make the mistake of thinking that "well dressed" necessarily means being expensively dressed, and, with this erroneous…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 487
The overdressed young woman is merely the feminine of the overdressed young man. The manners of both seem to have a subtle connection with their…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 488
One can not but feel that God is a lover of appropriate dress. He has put robes of beauty and glory upon all His works. Every flower is dressed in…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 489
There is something about one's personality which eludes the photographer, which the painter can not reproduce, which the sculptor can not chisel.…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 490
It is this indescribable quality, which some persons have in a remarkable degree, which sets an audience wild at the mention of the name of a…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 491
A historian says that, in measuring Kossuth's influence over the masses, "we must first reckon with the orator's physical bulk, and then carry the…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 492
A good illustration of the influence of personal atmosphere is found in the orator who carries his audience with him like a whirlwind, while he is…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 493
Certain personalities are greater than mere physical beauty and more powerful than learning. Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 494
We are unconsciously influenced by people who possess this magnetic power. The moment we come into their presence we have a sense of enlargement.…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 495
A few minutes before, perhaps, we were sad and discouraged, when, suddenly, the flashlight of a potent personality of this kind has opened a rift…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 496
Even a momentary contact with a character of this kind seems to double our mental and soul powers, as two great dynamos double the current which…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 497
On the other hand, we frequently meet people who make us shrivel and shrink into ourselves. The moment they come near us we experience a cold chill,…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 498
We instinctively feel that such people have no sympathy with our aspirations, and our natural prompting is to guard closely any expression of our…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 499
If we study these two types of personality, we shall find that the chief difference between them is that the first loves his kind, and the latter…
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Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 500
Many women are endowed with this magnetic quality, which is entirely independent of personal beauty. It is often possessed in a high degree by very…
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