A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.