Remembernot only to

Remembernot only to
Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
  

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Use softwords and hard arguments.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.
Anempty sack cannot stand up.
Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.