If your temper is aroused and you tell ’em a thing or to, you will have a fine time unloading your feelings. But what about the other person? Will he share your pleasure? Will your belligerent tones, your hostile attitude, make it easy for him to agree with you?
“If you come to 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.”
“It is an old and true maxim that ‘a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.’ So with men, if you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart; say what you will, is the great high road to his reason.”
-Abraham Lincoln
*Compilation taken from “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” by Dale Carnegie
Sometimes I feel if I have to much heavy decision making on my mind, I am just cranky and just looking for a fight. I am not sure why but it happens. Someone can ask me a very simple question and I can give them six pages of directions which makes that person feel stupid. I am not sure if that makes sense, but trust me this can cause a fight.