Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

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

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.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.