The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

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.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

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.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

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.

I want to show audiences I can act.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

The 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.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

Diplomacy 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.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

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

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

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

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

A yawn is a silent shout.

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

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

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.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

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