Dealings Quotes

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Deal with the big while it is still small.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being.

Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region.

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.

I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matters, I should not use any phrase or expression which would cause offence to our friends and Allies on the Continent or across the Atlantic Ocean.

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy;

and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted.

There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing.

They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy.

.. it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace;

it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

In practice, a global approach is needed when dealing with the problems of the spaceship earth which affect all of mankind. But local solutions, inevitably conditioned by local interests, are required for the problems peculiar to each human settlement.

The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history.

But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me;

leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

We must look at what immigration to America involves.

To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful...The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women.

Women are realist, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative.

He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.