Peoplewho are too

Peoplewho are too
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…
  

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
You can't unscramble an egg.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.
The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.
Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.
Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".
Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.