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…

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.