I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

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

I’m very much a creature of habit.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Money has a language of its own.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

A person hears only what they understand.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.