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…

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Instead of focusing on big goals,focus on small goals.Small victories always lead to large ones.Swami Vivekanand..

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.