tact Quotes

Tact is respect for the boundaries of someone else\'s dignity.

People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

I shifted in my chair as Dad waited for a response. He seemed determined, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possibly Milk Duds. 'Are you psychotic?Ђќ I asked, realizing my plan to charm and bribe him if need be flew out the window the minute I opened my mouth.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.

From time to time, I am asked--by people with an alarming lack of tact--why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an affinity for working with children, has none of his own. Other people's children are quite enough, thank you.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such an office as that of Chief Magistrate of a free people.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

I thought, \'Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?\' And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.

Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her...

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

I prefer the \'tackiest\' person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.