The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

All thingsat first appear difficult.

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...

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.