Talking Quotes

• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Alarms, May, Nervous

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.

  Deborah Reber

  People, Trying, Results

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• Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

  Emily Oster

  Birth, Polarizing

  "'Expecting Better' pregnancy advice" by Emily Oster, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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• People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Empathy, Understanding

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• There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspirational, Strong, Way

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• Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.

  Steve de Shazer

  Focus, Psychology, Relationship Problem

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

  Vincent McNabb

  Liking Someone, Joy, Sometimes

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• I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.

  Dan Wells

  People, Stories, Hearing

  Dan Wells (2010). “Mr. Monster”, p.109, Macmillan

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• Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.

  Rita Schiano

  Inspirational, Happiness, Grieving

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• Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

  Ann Landers

  Two, Remember, Argument

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

  Lois Wyse

  Business, Add, Discussion

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Long, Words Of Wisdom

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• Talk without effort is nothing.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Life, Effort, Words Of Wisdom

  Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.58, Indiana University Press

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• Listening is more important than talking.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Peace, Listening, Important

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• To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

  Marcel Marceau

  Communication, Men, Thinking

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

  Nelson Mandela

  Organization, Race, Political

  Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press

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• Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Please

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7566, Simon and Schuster

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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  A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Positive, Single, Wise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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• Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Confidence, Philosophy, Communication

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

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• Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

  William Shakespeare

  Spokes

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.212

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• Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Flower, Looks, Moments

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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