A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.