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...and refrain from deciding ahead of time what the other is talking about...
A fourteen-year old boy announced at dinner one evening that he had been chosen to
teach his class the next day. His father who was an expert in Instructional
Methods for the military seized this wonderful occasion to give his son the
benefit of his own training and experience.
“This is the way we go about it in the army, son,” he said. “We first choose
objectives made up of action, situation and level of performance.
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When Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States, he saw dozens of people
each day. Most had complaints of one kind or another.
One day a visiting Governor told the President that he did not understand how he
was able to meet so many people in the space of a few hours.
“Why, you are finished with all your visitors by dinner time,” said the Governor,
“while I am often in my office till midnight.”
“Yes,” said Coolidge. “That’s because you talk.”
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RELATIONSHIPS
Dialogue is the life-blood of a relationship. But the obstacles to dialogue are
many- alas, and those who surmount them, few.
Much is accomplished if, in the first place, we talk less and listen more...
President Theodore Roosevelt had a passion for big-game hunting. When he heard
that a famous British hunter was visiting the States he invited the man to the
White House in the hope of getting some pointers from him.
After a two-hour meeting at which the two of them were closeted
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A reporter was sent out to get the opinion of the man in the street about modern
woman. The first person he ran into was a man who had just celebrated his
one-hundred-and-third birthday.
“I’m afraid I won’t be of much help to you, son,” said the old man regretfully.
“I quit thinking about women nearly two years ago!”
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...I can only exchange it for another...
Soon after World War II a London bus conductor noticed a passenger with a heavy
parcel on his lap.
“What’s that you have there?” he asked.
“An unexploded bomb that fell near my house. I’m taking it to the police station.”
“Good God! You don’t want to carry a thing like that on your lap man! Put it under your seal!”
(The solution to a problem, changes the problem.)
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The chief executive of a large company was greatly admired for his energy and
drive. But he suffered from one embarrassing weakness: each time he entered the
president’s office to make his weekly report, he would wet his pants!
The kindly president advised him to see a proctologist. When he appeared before
the president the following week his pants were still wet! “Didn’t you see the
proctologist?” asked the president.
“No. He was out. I saw a psychologist instead. I’m cured. I no longer feel em
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The captain of a submarine, desiring to test his engine room, asked for top speed,
then suddenly ordered an emergency stop. His orders were instantly obeyed.
The public address system was turned on. “This is the captain speaking. Well done,
engine room. You stopped the sub in exactly 55.05 seconds.”
Soon another voice boomed, “This is the chef. The sub may have stopped, but your
steak and potatoes kept going. Cold dinner for everyone tonight!”
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...of their achievements!
A missionary, somewhere in the tropics, decided to impress his parishioners by
taking some of them for a ride in a plane. The plane glided over their villages
and hills and forests and rivers. Occasionally they would look out of their
windows but on the whole they did not seem to be one bit impressed.
Back on the ground his flock trooped out of the plane without a word of comment.
Anxious to get some response, the missionary exclaimed, “Wasn’t it wonderful?
Think of wh
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A former inmate of a Nazi concentration camp was visiting a friend who had shared
the ordeal with him.
“Have you forgiven the Nazis?” he asked his friend.
“Yes.”
“Well, I haven’t. I’m still consumed with hatred for them.”
“In that case,” said his friend gently, “they still have you in prison.”
...(our enemies are not those who hate us but those whom we hate),..
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The man was a regular customer and the management did its best to please him. So
when he complained one day that only one piece of bread was being given him with
his meal, the waiter promptly brought him four slices.
“That’s good,” he said, “but not good enough. I like bread-plenty of it.”
So the next night he was given a dozen slices, “Good,” he said. “But you’re still
being frugal, aren’t you?”
Even a basketful of slices on the table next day did not stop his complaints.
So the manager decided
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...and their emotions...
A passenger on a train was giving the dining car waiter his order. “For dessert,”
he said, “I’ll have tarts and ice-cream.”
The waiter said they had no tarts. The man exploded. “What? No tarts? That’s
absurd. I am one of the biggest customers this rail board has. Each year I
organize trips for thousands of tourists and I have hundred of tons of freight
transported on it. And when I myself travel on the line I cannot get a simple
thing like tarts! ‘I’ll take this up with
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A man in Russia took his wife with him into the forest, supposedly to hunt for
wolves. But when the wolves came, he ran away and abandoned her to them. The next
morning he put a wreath on his door and went into mourning-but not for long,
because he had a lover whom he married six months later.
The night of the wedding his former wife appeared to him at night crying, “Help!
Help! Help!” To his amazement, his new wife saw and heard nothing. Each night the
woman would return and scream for help, ti
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It is just as astonishing to see the use they make of their imagination..,..
“If you ever marry or take a mistress after I am gone I shall return to haunt
you,” said a dying woman to her husband.
So when he fell in love again some months after his wife’s death he was horrified,
but not surprised, to see her ghost walk into the house that night and accuse him
bitterly of infidelity.
This went on night after night till he could take it no more and went to consult a
Zen Master who said, “What make
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When a man returned from the large city to the ‘village of his boyhood years, one
of the neighbours said to him, “I suppose you know that old farmer Smith lost his farm?”
“No. What happened?”
“Well, one day he got the idea that his neighbour’s fence was five feet into his
land. He took to brooding over it. Finally he went to see a lawyer telling him he
thought this was encroachment. Well, the lawyer thought so too!”
Voltaire says, “I have never been ruined out but twice: once when I lost a laws
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