Quotes about Talk

Theologian, Philosopher

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

Talk - Wants

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

Laughing - People - Recipe - Talk - Waiting - Wants

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Death - Talk

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Jules Verne

Novelist, Poet, Playwright

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Joking - Talk

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Giving - Ownership - People - Talk - Willing

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Aggression - Mistake - Possibility - Sometimes - Talk - Thinking

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

Conversation - Fear - Giving - Listening - Talk - Vanity

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J. D. Salinger

Writer

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

Boy - Contempt - Heroism - Man - Talk - Warmth

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Lawyer - Talk - Yielding

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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

Aggression - Buddhism - Essence - Ignorance - Mindset - Movement - Ordinary - Passion - Pride - Suffering - Talk

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Ghosts - Love - Talk

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Life - Philosophy - Soul - Talk - Thinking

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

Emptiness - Silence - Talk

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Stephen King

Writer

At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style... but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic.

Agreeing - Expectation - Movement - Remembering - Talk - Wellness

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Simone de Beauvoir

Writer, Philosopher, Political Activist, Social Theorist

Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.

Feminism - Making - Man - Talk

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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Machine - Parliament - Talk

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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

There are a lot of talkers in the world. There are a lot of people who know what’s right and what’s powerful, yet still aren’t producing the results they desire. It’s not enough to talk the talk. You’ve got to walk the talk

Enough - People - Talk - World

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

Drinking - Nonsense - Talk - Thinking - Wellness

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Jane Austen

Writer, Novelist

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

Countries - Talk

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Allen Ginsberg

Poet

Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

Blindness - Talk

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