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…

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.