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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.
Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!
We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.
Old fools are more foolish than you ones.
If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.