The good things

The good things
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.
  

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The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
We arethe prisoners of ideas.
Skill inthe art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplishnothing unless he can communicate effectively.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.
If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.
Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.