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…

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.