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.
Richard P. FeynmanEvery spoken word arouses our self-will.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJust talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?
Joe BidenPeople use irony as a defense mechanism.
David ByrneIf there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
Henry FordThere is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar WildeI have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.
Taylor SwiftStage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.
Clint EastwoodThe people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon BonaparteI think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
Jeff BezosI know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
Jim CarreyNever be so brief as to become obscure.
Hosea BallouHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Noam ChomskyIf you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. TrumanMy friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
Joel OsteenA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
James MadisonI just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
George W. BushI 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.
Albert SchweitzerNewspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhen I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.
Dolly PartonPressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Robert FrostTell them to send everything that can fly.
Richard M. NixonAt 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
Herbert HooverSometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.
Joel OsteenSilence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.
Taylor SwiftIt may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert HubbardI think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.
Mark ZuckerbergMy first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
Dolly PartonOften, 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.
Eckhart TolleThe Internet has compromised the quality of debate.
Noam ChomskyI know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.
Dwayne JohnsonPeople talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.
Leonardo da VinciAll my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘
Marilyn MonroeI’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
Billy GrahamNever hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston ChurchillI don’t like talking to celebrities.
Lady GagaThe man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar WildeWords are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul SartreLetters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.
Robert KiyosakiWhen you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.
Beyonce KnowlesThere is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel JohnsonThere are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.
Jim MattisNever say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
Richard M. NixonWhen you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.
Robert GreeneIt is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George WashingtonSpeeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Thomas JeffersonYou think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘
Madeleine AlbrightMy 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.
Colin PowellIt takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David ThoreauThe most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore RooseveltNever marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
AristotleMy wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
Lou HoltzAfter one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.
Nelson MandelaOf course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.
Marilyn MonroeIt’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.
Taylor SwiftCharm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.
Albert CamusI think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Jane Goodall