Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.