Quotes on Talking

I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. 'Spare me the grim litany of the 'realist;' give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

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

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.