Ultimately, the only

Ultimately, the only
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.
  

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Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.
Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.
When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.
It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Dig a well before you are thirsty.
Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.
Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.
Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.