Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind