Just because we do not have a minute to lose does not mean that we have to lose our manners; we can be both polite and competent. Sometimes when we have to do something very urgent and when sometimes someone else does not get the urgency of things, we may tend to dismiss them. While our urgency is definitely good, our dismissiveness towards others is not. Just because we do not have a minute to lose does not mean we have to lose our manners; we can be polite and yet firm. That is why the Bhagavad Gita urges us in 17.15 to speak in a way that is both sensible and sensitive.

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17.15 Austerity of speech consists in speaking words that are truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others, and also in regularly reciting Vedic literature.