Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.