Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

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?

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.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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

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.

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.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

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

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Newspapers 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.

When 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.

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

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

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.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I 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.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

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!

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

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

You 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.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.