Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

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...

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.