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…

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.