Talking Quotes
5238 Talking quotes by 3466 unique authors
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We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.
— Alan Watts
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Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in…
— Dale Carnegie
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Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
— John Knox
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I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced this place is…
— Aziz Ansari
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I think it's really important these days to be able to relate to how the music flows and be able to speak the same language…
— Matt Cameron
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You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
— Brené Brown
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Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This…
— David Brooks
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We need to send our words out in the direction we want them to go. In other words, we need to start talking victory when…
— Jentezen Franklin
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I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this…
— Anna Sui
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I don't know where this is coming from. What's wrong with my hair? I'm like 'I just made history and people are focused on my…
— Gabby Douglas
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Nothing is going to change. I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well stop talking about…
— Gabby Douglas
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Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States.…
— Stedman Graham
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The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Teaching is listening, learning is talking
— Deborah Meier
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
— Randy Newman
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Kate Moss is too skinny. She also looks like she's 11. It's practically illegal to look at her picture. God bless Kate Dillon, but size…
— Gary Dell'Abate
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The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble…
— Sam Peckinpah
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You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something…
— Erik Qualman
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My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea,…
— Bernard Moitessier
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People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means…
— Alice Duer Miller
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Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles … they all sounded to me like…
— Joel Spolsky
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When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too…
— Derrick Jensen
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The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students…
— Craig Clevenger
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Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense…
— Hannah Kent
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Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.
— Paul Buchheit
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