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...

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.