If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

I 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.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

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

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

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.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

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

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

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

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

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.

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.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

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

I’m a people pleaser. 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.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

I can express myself.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Tell the children the truth.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.