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.
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.
I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives.
It's true that no policy fully survives first contact. But if you don't spend time anticipating the shots you are likely to take, you wind up flailing about wildly.
When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
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