Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

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…

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

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