I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

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.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

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

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

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

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

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

In oratory the will must predominate.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

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.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

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

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

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

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.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.