starjax.blogg.se - Actions are louder than words

We tend to judge other people by their actions and ourselves by our intentions.

Before taking offence, first check out their intentions.

People can change and grow be careful about locking someone into their past.

If they did mean to get at you, then defend yourself if you wish, but if they had a different intention then why waste your time and energy being angry at something they never intended. If you are mature enough to consider that others may have meant something different from what you would have meant if you had said or done that, you will check out their meaning before you take offence. There is little more frustrating than trying to convince someone that you did not mean what they assumed and not being able to convince them that they have got it wrong. If you are going to believe what you see without considering what they are saying or trying to tell you then they will initially shut you out emotionally and not talk to you and if it goes on for long enough they will leave you. The second possibility is that you will find that other people will not allow you to get close to them. The first possibility is that you can end up living in reaction to other people, constantly taking offence where none was intended. If you are not prepared to consider any perspective other than your own as being valid or true, then you are likely to find yourself in one of two situations. Just because you would mean something if you said or did something does not mean that someone else would mean the same if they said or did the same thing.

It may come as a shock to you that all people do not think and act the same way that you do. In the past year I have encountered a number of family and business relationships that have blown apart over simple misunderstandings that were not checked out before taking offence. Tom, whos a shy chap at heart, firmly believes that actions speak louder than words and has, therefore, been demonstrating his love for Jean by taking her dog to the vet, washing her. The quote reads: ‘Actions speak louder than words’ is the maxim and, if true, the South now distinctly says to the North, ‘Give us the measures, you take the men.

Sadly however, many people do not appear to be aware that making an assumption about what a person is meaning based on their actions, without first checking out what they are saying is equally stupid. If you say that actions speak louder than words, you mean that people show what they really think and feel by what they do, rather than by what they say. Hence, I also firmly believe that actions speak. The only reason behind the famous phrase that action speaks louder than words is the fact that taking action brings the destination closer. In this case, the principle is that it is both naive and dangerous to take someone at his or her word before checking out the person's previous track record. Model Answer 2: Submitted by - Nirav Words convey an offer or invitation for some action whereas performing the action is what completes a task. The old saying that actions speak louder than words is one that, like many of our colloquial sayings, is based on a fundamental truth.