Growing up Quote by Anonymous

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

— Bobby Knight

The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

— John Green

We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice.

— Theodore Zeldin

Speaking is physically difficult for me.

— Gabrielle Giffords

As you get older, you mellow, but there's a natural propensity to watch what you say, 'cause you learn that you want more time…

— Gord Downie

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into…

— David Tennant

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses…

— Carroll O'Connor

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Sometimes, we don't say what we feel, not because we don't want to, but because we don't know how.

— Tinku Razoria

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd…

— Adrien Brody

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can…

— John Dieterich