The mostimportant things

The mostimportant things
The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
  

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.
I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.
Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.
Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.
Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.
Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.