When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

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

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

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

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

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.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

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

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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.

I’m an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody’s energy. But I give it back.

There 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.‘

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I’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.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

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

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

Language is the dress of thought.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

We 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.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

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

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

I’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.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

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.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

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

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

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.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.