The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Interpretation
Avoiding arguments can lead to better outcomes in conversations.
This quote by Dale Carnegie emphasizes the idea that engaging in arguments often leads to more conflict than resolution. By choosing not to participate in unnecessary disputes, one can maintain peace and foster better relationships, highlighting the value of understanding and cooperation over confrontation.
In practice
During a team meeting, instead of arguing over differing opinions, I referenced this quote to suggest we find common ground.
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him
You are free, but you have to choose. An open oven bakes no bread
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