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…

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.