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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My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.
Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.
Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.
He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.
A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.
Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.