Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

tactic can be particularly successful when the audience is already aware of the weakness; thus, when a communicator mentions it, little additional damage is done, as no new information is added — except, crucially, that the communicator is an honest individual. Another enhancement occurs when the speaker uses a transitional word — such as however, or but, or yet — that channels the listeners’ attention away from the weakness and onto a countervailing strength.

To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.

Lombardi works you so hard,” Knafelc once said, “that when he tells you to go to hell, you look forward to the trip.

Should anyone here in Rome lack finesse at love-making,
Let him
Try me - read my book, and the results are guaranteed!
Technique is the secret. Charioteer, sailor, oarsman,
All need it.
Technique can control
Love himself.

One touches and, in the act of touching, one's touched.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.