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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The property of power is to protect.
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.
It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
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.
I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.