Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

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.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

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 like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

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.‘

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

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Debates, I hate.

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

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Language is the dress of thought.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.