managing difficult people Quotes

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Claire said. “I might be able to get him to stop.” “Who, crazy dude? Maybe. Or he might pull your head off,” Shane said. “I kind of worry.” She couldn’t help but smile. “Yeah?” “A little bit.” “That’s …nice.” He studied her, and returned the smile. “Yeah,” he said. “Kind of is, actually.

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.