Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Genius is a long impatience.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.