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

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

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

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.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

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

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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.

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

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

The more you know the less you need to say.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they’re telling you the truth or not, there’s several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

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

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Coffee is a language in itself.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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.

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

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

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.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Smiles are the language of love.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.