If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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

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

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.