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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We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.
Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.
Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.
Thereare two sides to every question.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.
A good conscience is the best divinity.
I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.
Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.