Begin in a friendly way
A Drop of Honey
1. If your temper is aroused and you tell’em a thing or two, you will have a fine time unloading your feelings. But what about the other person?
2. “If you come at me with your fists doubled,” said Woodrow Wilson, “I think I can promise you that mine will double as fast as yours; but if you come to me and say, ‘Let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from each other, understand why it is that we differ, just what the points at issue are,’ we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.”
3. Speak of pride and friendship, common interests and courtesy
4. Isn’t that a superb example of the fine art of making friends out of enemies
5. If a man’s heart is rankling with discord and ill feeling toward you, you can’t win him to your way of thinking with all the logic in Christendom. Scolding parents and domineering bosses and husbands and nagging wives ought to realize that people don’t want to change their minds. They can’t be forced or driven to agree with you or me. But they may possibly be led to, if we are gentle and friendly, ever so gentle and ever so friendly.
6. “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince hi that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart; which, say what you will, is the great high road to his reason.” Lincoln
7. Daniel Webster used powerful arguments such as, “It will be for the jury to consider”, “This may, perhaps, be worth thinking of,” and “You, with your knowledge of human nature, will easily see the significance of these facts.”
8. No bulldozing. No high-pressure methods. No attempt to force his opinions on others. Webster used the soft-spoken, quiet, friendly approach, and it helped to make him famous.
9. A friendly, sympathetic, appreciative approach is always the best way to win
10. The sun can make you take off your coat more quickly than the wind; and kindliness, the friendly approach, and appreciation can make people change their minds more readily than all the bluster and storming in the world.
11. Remember Lincoln’s words, “A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”
1. If your temper is aroused and you tell’em a thing or two, you will have a fine time unloading your feelings. But what about the other person?
2. “If you come at me with your fists doubled,” said Woodrow Wilson, “I think I can promise you that mine will double as fast as yours; but if you come to me and say, ‘Let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from each other, understand why it is that we differ, just what the points at issue are,’ we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.”
3. Speak of pride and friendship, common interests and courtesy
4. Isn’t that a superb example of the fine art of making friends out of enemies
5. If a man’s heart is rankling with discord and ill feeling toward you, you can’t win him to your way of thinking with all the logic in Christendom. Scolding parents and domineering bosses and husbands and nagging wives ought to realize that people don’t want to change their minds. They can’t be forced or driven to agree with you or me. But they may possibly be led to, if we are gentle and friendly, ever so gentle and ever so friendly.
6. “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince hi that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart; which, say what you will, is the great high road to his reason.” Lincoln
7. Daniel Webster used powerful arguments such as, “It will be for the jury to consider”, “This may, perhaps, be worth thinking of,” and “You, with your knowledge of human nature, will easily see the significance of these facts.”
8. No bulldozing. No high-pressure methods. No attempt to force his opinions on others. Webster used the soft-spoken, quiet, friendly approach, and it helped to make him famous.
9. A friendly, sympathetic, appreciative approach is always the best way to win
10. The sun can make you take off your coat more quickly than the wind; and kindliness, the friendly approach, and appreciation can make people change their minds more readily than all the bluster and storming in the world.
11. Remember Lincoln’s words, “A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”
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