How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

".... 職場の人間関係につかれている家族にな、何か解決のきっかけになればと渡しました。あのカーネギーさえも、ささいな人間関係に大いに悩まされ、そこから対応の仕方を習得していったという事実に、大きく励まされたようで、買って良かったと思いました。実は著者の言っている内容は、どの本にも書いてあることなのかもしれません。でも体験してきたエピソードが面白いことで、ぐっと真実味が増して、納得できました ...." "..... This is a great book not only for the life lessons that it teaches, but by the way it teaches them. The book is basically a series of anecdotes which are all very interesting .......it has given the motivation to accept the challenges that life has to offer me, turning them into opportunities simply by putting my worries into perspective....."

이 책은 전 세계적으로 번역이 된 작품이고 정말 오랜 세월 동안 많은 독자들에게 읽는 즐거움을 준 작품이다. 주제별로 다양한 인물들의 일화를 소개하고 있기 때문에 지루함을 느끼지 않고 읽을 수 있는 작품이다. 장편이지만 내용이 재밌고 책의 구성이 읽기에 편하기 때문에 진도가 잘나가는 작품이다. 문장이나 표현은 전체적으로 무난하지만 가끔씩 집중력을 요구하는 문장들이 있다. 표현이나 등장하는 내용은 그냥 읽어도 문제가 없지만 가끔씩 등장하는 낯선 유명인(?)에 대해선 검색하면서 읽었다.

• Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.....
• Every day is a new life to a wise man ......
• Life is slipping away with incredible speed ... Today is our most precious possession .... our only sure possession.
• True peace of mind ....... comes from accepting the worst ..... it means a release of energy.
• face the facts ; quit worrying ; then do something about it ...
• get the facts ... analyze the facts .... arrive at a decision and then act on that decision.
• Writing down precisely what I am worrying about .... writing down what I can do about it ... Deciding what to do ..... Starting immediately to carry out the decision.....
• The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not
• .... ninety-nine percent of the things I worried about never happened ...
• Epictetus taught .... one way to happiness ..... is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will ...
• Napoleon lost one third of the important battles ..... our batting average is no worse than Napoleon's ....
• Our life is what our thoughts make it.
• ..... the difference between concern and worry ...... concern means realizing what the problems are and calmly taking steps to meet them ... worrying means going around in maddening futile circles ......... 등의 좋은 문장들이 많다.

 

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