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

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...

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.