Quotes
Quotes about Talk
The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth. -Sara Paddison.
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. -A. A. Milne.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
