Peoplewho are too

Peoplewho are too
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…
  

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It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.
Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.
It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.
A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.
Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important