A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.