Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

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…

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to