Frank Richard Stockton Quotes

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

You can disagree with someone and still do business as a professional.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.'

I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.

Don't argue. We ain't doing that. What you going back and forth with somebody over anything for?

I would never say don't have an argument.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

I think any husband knows when to stand down when it comes to domestic disputes. After 13 years of marriage, I even think I may have it figured out.

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.

It is natural to have differences and still remain friends.

No quarrel ought ever be converted into a policy.

You don’t want an appointee who will agree with you all the time. If two smart people are both thinking they are going to disagree with each other sooner or later. You want an appointee who may not always agree with you but one of whom you can always be proud.

I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.