Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Stability is not immobility

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Skill inthe art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplishnothing unless he can communicate effectively.

The property of power is to protect.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.