Thoughts Text – Set 4 – 2017

#1

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

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#2

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

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#3

Use softwords and hard arguments.

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#4

A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.

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#5

It’s notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

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#6

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

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#7

To be preparedis half the victory.

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#8

Ittakes time to save time.

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#9

Thorough nesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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#10

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

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#11

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

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#12

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

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#13

Ignorancedoesn’t kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

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#14

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.

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#15

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

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#16

Conflictisn’t negative, it just is.

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#17

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?

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#18

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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#19

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

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#20

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

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#21

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

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#22

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

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#23

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

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#24

Never cut what you can untie.

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#25

Laugh teris the shortest distance between two people.

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#26

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

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#27

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

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#28

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

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#29

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

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#30

A goodmanager doesn’t try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you’re the boss and your people fight you openlywhen they think that you are wrong that’s healthy.

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#31

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

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#32

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

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#33

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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#34

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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#35

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness – is usually returned

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#36

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

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#37

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

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#38

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

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#39

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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#40

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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#41

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

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#42

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

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#43

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

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#44

Now-a-days women don’t hire domestic help-they marry it.

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#45

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

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#46

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

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#47

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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#48

Pain is the outcome of sin.

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#49

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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#50

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.