Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.