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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.
Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.
Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.
You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.
Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
The property of power is to protect.
Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.
Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.
Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.
Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.