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• Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Essence

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• I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My dad's not a big talker.

  Zara Phillips

  Dad, Bigs, My Dad

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• No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.

  Seth Godin

  Morning, Block, Wake Up

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• There are a lot of talkers in the world. There are a lot of people who know what’s right and what’s powerful, yet still aren’t producing the results they desire. It’s not enough to talk the talk. You’ve got to walk the talk

  Tony Robbins

  Powerful, People, Desire

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don’t be a talker.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Writing, People

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• I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

  David Bowie

  Gun, Said, Sat

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.30, Melville House

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• Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

  Flora Thompson

  Good Work, Workers

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

  Isak Dinesen

  Mind, Flight, Function

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.132, Vintage

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• There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

  Drake

  Father, Liars, Son

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

  Charles Dickens

  Water, Listening, May

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• Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Needs, Ears, Should

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.57, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.

  Jeremy Stephens

  Mma, People, World

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• Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Gaps, Conversation

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• My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

  Diane Keaton

  Mother, Talking, Listeners

  "Diane Keaton’s Ode To Motherhood" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

  Josef Albers

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• I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Boring, Blah

  "Zooey Deschanel: 'I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• A lot of Republican candidate will tell you they'll protect innocent human life and they'll hunt down ISIS and get rid of Common Core, but we're actually doing things in our state. We need a doer, not a talker.

  Bobby Jindal

  Isis, Needs, Doers

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

  John Bunyan

  Believe, Men, Doers

  John Bunyan (2017). “Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)”, p.82, Whitaker House

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• Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Men, Talking

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• Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Talking, Class

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.174, Knopf

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• There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

  John Bunyan

  Blessed, Perfect, Judging

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• When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Evil, Hearing, Refrain

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.255

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