All Quotes By Tag: Talking
“The ability to talk to people: that’s the key to the world. It doesn’t matter whether you are able to articulate your own thoughts and feelings and meanings or not. What matters is being able to make the noises that encourage others to feel comfortable, and the inquiries which present them with the opportunity to articulate their thoughts and feelings and meanings, the particulars of their existences, their passions, preoccupations, beliefs. If you can talk to people in this way, you can go – you can get – anywhere in this world, in life.”
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“We can’t talk about it, or I know she won’t so I don’t even try, but it’s what goes unsaid between people tat builds up like masonry. You have to either knock the bricks out with other things, or let them keep stacking until eventually you are alone in a room.”
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“When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.”
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“You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.”
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“A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.”
“When you listen, you learn. But when you keep on talking, you miss the lessons you would have learnt from listening.”
“Issues or fears of confrontation tend to showcase unhealthy and unprofessional communication. If you are trusting someone to tell you all the good, bad and ugly, but they only give you the good out of their fears and confrontational issues… the bad and the ugly can grow worse and worse quickly.”
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“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”
“We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.”
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“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.”
“We learn not by talking but by listening.”
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“Just keep communication going.”
“The more you read, the less you sound foolish when you speak.”
“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking”
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“Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.”
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