We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him