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…

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.