Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. LewisDiplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
Colin PowellI’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.
Marilyn MonroeThe more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
Mark TwainOur most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWords can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.
Jane GoodallSincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao TzuThere are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise PascalThere is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar WildeSeveral excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous HuxleyNewspapers 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 SchopenhauerWar is what happens when language fails.
Margaret AtwoodYou can only have one aim per debate.
Christopher HitchensI meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Dr. SeussYou’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
Lyndon B. JohnsonYou don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott FitzgeraldOften, 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 mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. NixonThe idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya AngelouMost negotiators are trying to get their way.
Stephen CoveyThe royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale CarnegieHalf the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert FrostEvery once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.
Dan QuayleNothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da VinciAnyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho MarxNormally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
Brene BrownIf the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas JeffersonWhen your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
Erma BombeckAction speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark TwainA man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.
Joyce MeyerThere was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘
Kevin HartThinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
PlatoNo poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.
Joel OsteenA bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry FordI am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.
Clint EastwoodLanguage is the dress of thought.
Samuel JohnsonI can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.
Kevin HartWhen 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.
Mark ZuckerbergWe live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.
Joel OsteenI 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.
Eleanor RooseveltIf you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.
Jordan PetersonOrators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson MandelaTalking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William ShakespeareIf you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David ThoreauTalking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert FrostA friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TolkienPut it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.
DJ KhaledI’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
Bill GatesWhen 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.
Richard BransonBasketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
LeBron JamesOne might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.
Joyce MeyerSo when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.
Greta ThunbergYou 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.
Dale CarnegieI hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.
Mark ZuckerbergYou have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
Lady GagaI am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.
Greta Thunberg