Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

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...

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur