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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It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal
The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.
A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.
If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.
Laughter is shortest distance between two people.
The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.
Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.