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• Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

  Lois Greiman

  Hands, People, Too Much

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• These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.

  Harold Nicolson

  Loyalty, Taken, Quality

  "Diplomacy". Book by Harold George Nicolson, chapter 3, p. 126, 1939.

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Purpose, Speak, Silent

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

  Julian Burnside

  Kind, Sometimes, Diplomacy

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• Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

  Carl Zuckmayer

  Thinking, People, Ability

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

  Edgar Guest

  Home, December

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• 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?” I asked, realizing my plan to charm and bribe him if need be flew out the window the minute I opened my mouth.

  Darynda Jones

  Dad, Needs, Mouths

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Mistake, Team

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• Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

  Drake

  Life, Breakup, Pride

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• The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Marriage, Children, Humorous

  "The Little Things You Do Together" (song) (1970)

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• It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Character, Men

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• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Attitude, Integrity

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Perseverance, Moving, Two

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• You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

  Henry Adams

  Political, Use, Politics

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1494, Open Road Media

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• Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Nature, Children, Home

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

  Edmund Gosse

  Littles, Might, Trouble

  Edmund Gosse (2012). “Father and Son”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Appreciation, Causes, Misery

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.260, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  Meryl Streep

  Passion, Heart, Empathy

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• My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for all the groups. So you don't do it, particularly if people in California vote on it, don't want it, they think that the heterosexuality is a societal stabilizer.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Gay, Thinking, Heterosexuality Is

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• What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Ironic, Absence, Decorum

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• As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Love, Success, Education

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• Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

  Robert E. Lee

  Men, Two, Quality

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• It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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• Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Years, Mind

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Absorbent Mind”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

  Marquis de Sade

  Government, Skills, Answers

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