Talking Quotes - Page 3

But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success.

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss

Talking with three people deeply is better than talking with thirty people superficially.

People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.

We kept gazing into each other’s eyes, rest was history, we kept talking in body language.

If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start.

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice-to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

We don't get to choose our blood families, but we do get to decide how to talk to them, how much to tell them, and how open to be with them about the core of who we are. -Erynn Rowan Laurie

Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you’ll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

I talk to children like adults and to adults like children.

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to
me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.