Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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…

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.