A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

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…

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.