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…

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

A room without books is a body without soul