People whoare too

People whoare too
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...
  

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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant
A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.
Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?
Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.