When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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...

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.