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…

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.