Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

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.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.