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...

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.