Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.