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…

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.