Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?