Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

When 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.

Basketball 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.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The way I talk is bizarre.

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

Silence is the mother of truth.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

It’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.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

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 often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Our 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.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

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.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

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.

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.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.