Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

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

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.