If youare 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.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

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.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.