A large ocean liner

A large ocean liner
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
  

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Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.
Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!
One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.
Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.
Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.
Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.
Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.
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The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.
It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.