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…

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.