Here are three of the most common lies I hear people tell themselves all of which can cause significant damage in your career.
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About 150 truck drivers, dockworkers and mechanics, most of them Teamsters members, piled into a conference hall to hear the president of Roadway Express tell them they had to work more efficiently.
To hear the environmental stalwarts tell the story of the future, natural gas is supposed to be our bridge fuel to a bright new world of renewable energy, with solar panels on every roof and windmills in every town.
To hear the bears tell it, the combination of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the potential nuclear disaster will undoubtedly slow the Japanese economy.
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To hear Graham tell it, this is part of a systemic failure to address drug safety on the part of the FDA, a story that reaches back over the entirety of his 20-year career at the agency.
"I'm not sure your investors would want to hear you tell people don't eat too much of our pizzas, " he laughed before thanking Schnatter for his time.
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Mr Jafferjee said the trial would hear from a member of the gang who would tell the court that it was the 16-year-old defendant who delivered the fatal blow.
That's not the opinion of people who work for me and have to tell me what I want to hear. (Laughter.) This is the opinion of independent economists.
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He tends to tell people what they want to hear, with promises of more jobs, free housing and lower taxes.
He is not there to hear the government line, or really even to tell tales of woe, but to look at what remains of the places and people nearest the nuclear reactors.
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And before you hear a bunch of ridiculous attack ads, I want to tell you who I am.
To hear Michael Bartholomeusz tell it, making thin film solar panels out of the promising but beguiling technology known as CIGS is about as easy as baking banana bread.
We'll hear Joe Henry's version of "Don't Tell Me to Stop" in just a moment, as well as some new material, which is exciting for his fans because it has been four years since the singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer has put out something new.
To hear Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley tell it, there has been no change in U.S. policy toward Iran.
To hear conservatives tell it, Mr Obama had just undermined the electoral chances of vulnerable Democrats, granting Republicans a legitimate way to push opponents to take a stand on this thorny and divisive issue.
Studies, of course, will tell you whatever you want to hear.
And so when you hear a prosecutor or a team of prosecutors misstate a fact or not tell you the whole story, you should wonder why.
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He's here to call their bluff, to tell them the truth they don't want to hear: most of their principles are bad (if well intentioned) and will ultimately lead to nobody making any money, having any ownership over the quality of their creations, or any way to support themselves on the internet -- outside of giant companies whose main source of revenue is online advertising.
Just some of the heartwarming stories you may or may not hear Brent Musberger tell you during the Little League World Series.
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He'll tell them some of the most electrifying stories they'll ever hear.
"Candidates are trying to get into the head of admissions people and tell stories they think we want to hear, " says Isiadinso.
"Our role is to listen carefully and to hear what people want to tell us about their experiences, " Ms Gibbons said of the acknowledgement forum.
To hear Todd Rome and Richard (Ricky) Sitomer tell it, the two cofounders of Blue Star Jets have created a new business model for private aviation: "We're the superbroker of the industry, " says Sitomer, 37.
"John McCain's support of the moratorium on offshore drilling during his first presidential campaign was certainly laudable, but his decision to completely change his position and tell a group of Houston oil executives exactly what they wanted to hear today was the same Washington politics that has prevented us from achieving energy independence for decades, " he said.
"He never, I think, has been the type of guy to tell people what he thinks that they want to hear, " Nigh, McVeigh's defense attorney, said Sunday.
It was hard to hear over the background noise of rowdy engineers in a crowded restaurant, but I could tell he was surprised when I insisted that we drop all the foreign-language results.
He had us now, the old man: all of us were straining to hear what this soft-voiced dapper gentleman might tell us about the professor we celebrated and advertised and never really knew.
Words from the mouth of a passive-aggressive manager cannot be trusted as they will always tell the CEO what they want to hear, and they will always paint the picture of having everything perfectly under control.
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