Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise