Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." -- Dorothy Nevill I wish more politicians and pundits lived by this quote.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I wish more politicians and pundits lived by this quote.> Not to mention a few "wannabe pundits" around these here parts.
Originally Posted By ecdc Great quote, 2oony. You know, I always used to be the kind of person that just had to get in the last word, had to let the jerk know they are a jerk, had to get in the come back and put somebody I thought had it coming down. Then...I got a job at a call center. You're not allowed to do that there or you lose your job. I was forced to bite my tongue and put up with some of the lowest kind of jerks you can imagine. Now I'm a supervisor and when someone requests to speak with me, 9 times out of 10 they are even lower than the lowest I've learned that I don't have to get in the last word and that I can just let people have their say. I've also been able to see the other side - those that do have to have the last word or have to have the put down are absolutely not the kind of person I want to be. In short, I'm finally learning the kind of basic skills I should've learned in elementary school. I'll tell ya, it's nice And seeing some folks 'round here acting that way, I'm embarrassed thinking that I've been (and occasionally still am) like that!
Originally Posted By alexbook I'll plead guilty to having failed to keep silent when silence would have been appropriate. --- If I might throw in another useful aphorism: "An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it." --Don Marquis It's easy (I do it myself) to attack people who say things you don't agree with, but just because a person is generally stupid, illiterate, bigotted, or obnoxious, doesn't automatically make him or her wrong on a particular point.
