Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Money has a language of its own.

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

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

Silence is safer than speech.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

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

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

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

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

War is what happens when language fails.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?