Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Benjamin DisraeliRead
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Interpretation
Tact is essential for effective communication and learning from others.
The quote emphasizes the importance of tact in interactions, suggesting that without it, one is unable to truly absorb knowledge or understand others. Tact allows for sensitive and thoughtful communication, fostering an environment where learning can flourish, as it encourages open dialogue and mutual respect.
In practice
In a workshop setting, to promote a learning environment.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.
The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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