#tact

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#best #conscientious #go #handled #merchandise

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#beholder #competence #contact #eye #eye of the beholder

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#contact #external #external world #immediate #in other words

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music. ↗

— Robert Plant

#because #big-time #close #contact #enjoy

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#contact #easy #give #give and take #harmony

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do. ↗

— Rob Portman

#attacking #been #fresh #fresh ideas #ideas

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. ↗

— Colin Powell

#contact #enemy #plan #survives

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#especially #fashion #fast #go #how

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better. ↗

— Alain Prost

#always #better #bit #contact #direct

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#contact #distraction #good #gratifying #i