Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.
Know what you are talking about.
I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.
It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.
When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.
A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.
Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Money talks, bullshit walks.
To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.
I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.
If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.
Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
If you want to make a difference, then get good at doing something and not just talking about something
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