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…

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.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.