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…

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.