Talkers Quotes

• A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

  Truman Capote

  Communication, Intelligent, Talking

  "Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing". Book by Ron A. Carucci, September 30, 2006.

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Humorous

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

  Christopher Morley

  Wisdom, Communication, Advice

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Safety pins: and other essays”

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• The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Men, Doers

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.204, Hoover Press

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• Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  World, Convincing

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

  Thomas Sowell

  Doers, Specialty

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.206, Hoover Press

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• There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, Interesting, Silent

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4031, Delphi Classics

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• A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Dog, Buddhist

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• People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

  Bill Vaughan

  People, Behaviour, Littles

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• Talkers are no good doers.

  William Shakespeare

  Humorous, Silence, Laziness

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.32

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• Good talkers are only found in Paris.

  Francois Villon

  Paris, Found, France Paris

  "Ballade des Femmes de Paris". Poem by Francois Villon , II,

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• Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

  Francois Fenelon

  Use, Quacks, Remedy

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• If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Thinking, Silence, Thinker

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• Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

  Eliphas Levi

  Success, Strong, Procrastination

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• Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

  Gloria Swanson

  Beautiful, Tennessee, Common

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• No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

  Ouida

  Talking, World, Great Things

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.96, Ouida

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• Jesus was a doer, and not only a talker. He led the way by example. He showed us how to live and minister to others.

  Artur Pawlowski

  Jesus, Doers, Way

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• The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Past, Achievement

  'The Spirit of the Age' (1825) 'Mr Coleridge'

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• A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

  Edward de Bono

  Beautiful, Mind, Attractive

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• Two great talkers will not travel far together.

  George Henry Borrow

  Breakup, Two, Together

  George Henry Borrow (1852). “Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest”, p.200

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• A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Listening, Sore Throat

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• A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Lawyer, Chiefs

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• Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Expression, Description

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2580, Delphi Classics

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• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle

  Owen Hart

  Motivational, Wrestling, Talking

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• And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

  Brenda Ueland

  Listening, Doe, Beloved

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