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…

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Stability is not immobility

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.