Talking To Yourself Quotes

• Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Talking, Listening, Unhappy

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.15, Zondervan

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Grateful, Talking, Mind

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

  Robert Harris

  Thinking, Talking

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• A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

  Fred Allen

  Humor, Men, Talking

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• You must be ready in mind, body, and spirit before you can make a change. People cannot convince you to do it. You cannot force you to do it. Everything you think, say, and do until that happens is just preparation. So love yourself right now. Honor yourself. Keep talking to yourself. Keep thinking ready thoughts. In the meantime, try to remember you will not be ready until you are ready.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Love You, Thinking, Remember You

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from May 05, 2016

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• There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Talking, Trying, Harm

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• Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

  Guy Finley

  Talking, Differences, Bad Company

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 17, 2017

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• In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Talking, Skills, Academia

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• If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you're walking down the street talking to yourself people tend to give you a wide berth! But I've always been blessed with being easily ignored or avoided. I think maybe it's because people think I look a little crazy.

  Tim Burton

  Crazy, Blessed, Thinking

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• Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

  Max Lucado

  Talking, Praying, Christ

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

  Pema Chodron

  Fire, Talking, Burning

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

  Nigel Hamilton

  Talking, Reader, Ifs

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• A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

  Chath Piersath

  Talking, Silence, Process

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

  Dylan Moran

  Talking, People, Listening

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• Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they're all in the room. They know, like, nothing.

  Philip Roth

  Teaching, Talking, People

  Philip Roth (2010). “The Human Stain”, p.190, Random House

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• Paranoia," Sam muttered. "You're going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you're talking to yourself.

  Michael Grant

  Talking, Nuts, Paranoia

  Michael Grant (2012). “Fear”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to.

  Brittany Howard

  Talking, Songwriting

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• Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

  Cesare Pavese

  Writing, Talking, Two

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.276, Transaction Publishers

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• talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

  Michele Jaffe

  Talking, Brain, Machines

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