People whoare too

People whoare too
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...
  

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola
Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.
We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.
No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.
Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.
Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.