Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.
Elon MuskWhat 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.
Kevin HartWhen it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
DrakeI don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas CarlyleI prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWrite in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Ho Chi MinhSometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.
Robert KiyosakiNo one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsI very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.
Jeff BezosThe capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. MenckenThe language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David ThoreauNever be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Alice WalkerDon’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. LewisWriting, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac AsimovLet us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark TwainHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VoltaireI don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
Matthew McConaugheyMind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William ShakespeareWhen the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
Brene BrownMany parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.
Christopher HitchensWe have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
DiogenesIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
Noam ChomskyAll men hate the nagging.
Kevin HartWriting and cookery are just two different means of communication.
Maya AngelouThe reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI 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.
Frank OceanWe cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert SchweitzerI’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.
Bill GatesThe perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard ShawI actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
J. ColeThe 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.
Richard M. NixonWe 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.
Henry David ThoreauThere are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale CarnegieOne great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VoltaireIf 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.
Thomas CarlyleI speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
Maya AngelouSilence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.
Taylor SwiftThe superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
ConfuciusPeople are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
Henry KissingerThe 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!
Taylor SwiftSometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor RooseveltIf someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.
Joe BidenWhen you’re all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
Terry PratchettWords do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim RohnNothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.
Margaret AtwoodJournalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
Terry PratchettIf you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Robert Baden-PowellWhen you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.
Robert GreeneIf you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother TeresaI think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.
Taylor SwiftIn one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan PoeExtremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.
Joyce MeyerI’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.
Beyonce KnowlesFaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.
Stephen CurryWoe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
VoltaireSometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai LamaThe American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.
Joe BidenThe second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.
Kevin Hart