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...

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

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

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.