If youare leaning

If youare leaning
If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
  

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They
Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.
When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.
This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.
Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.
You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves
Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.