The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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