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.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

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

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

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.