The Art of the Compliment: Using Kind Words with Grace and Style

Matheson, Christie

ISBN 10: 1602396361 / ISBN 13: 9781602396364

Published by Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2009

About this Item

Blue cloth with silver lettering. Appears unread. Text is clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ clean and bright. "Compliments cost nothing but they can give so much. To learn the whys and wherefores of praise, and specific instruction on how to use it to your best advantage, please read on." (from the jacket). Seller Inventory # B73111

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Art of the Compliment: Using Kind Words ...

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, New York

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

"I can live for two months on a good compliment."--Mark Twain

"More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice."--Robert Smith Surtees

Let Chrisie Matheson show you how a few well-chosen words can elicit smiles, inspire happiness, transform moods, and turn a bad day into a good one.

Compliments are wonderful and powerful, but we don't nearly use them enough. They can strengthen relationships and family ties, nurture romantic love, and improve work situations. Here is a book that can make you better at compliments, and relationships of all kinds. Chapters include:

• Compliments 101
• The secret guide to compliments: listen up
• Working the compliment
• Random acts of compliments
• On insincerity
• Thanks, but no thanks: backhanded compliments
• And much more!

Maybe you have given a lot of thought to compliments; more likely you have not. They are a tool that should be in your relationship toolbox. And this is the complete how-to guide.