It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

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

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Ittakes time to save time.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.