Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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…

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.