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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A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.
Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
Luck never mad a mad man wise
Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.
Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Usesoft words and hard arguments.
To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.