Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

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…

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.