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…

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.