Talking Quotes - Page 20

• The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

  Dorothy Day

  Writing, Important

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• I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

  William Safire

  Professors, Novel

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• I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

  Robert Redford

  Issues, Hot, Different

  Interview with Sean P. Means, www.sltrib.com. December 02, 2005.

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• You need to understand this.  We did not think we owned the land.  The land was part of us.  We didn't even know about owning the land.  It is like talking about owning your grandmother - you can't own your grandmother.  She just is your grandmother.  Why would you talk about owning her?

  Kent Nerburn

  Grandmother, Thinking, Land

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder”, p.46, New World Library

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• Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

  Emily Post

  Persons, Has Beens

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Money Talks, Knows

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• In my heart, I know I haven't been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers, I'm not talking just on the field, I'm talking off the field.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Heart, Fields, Steelers

  "Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature'". www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2010.

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• I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

  Carlos Beltran

  Hard Work, People, Defense

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• Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorant, Desert, Sand

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• I just hated being around attention and stuff. In the clubhouse, I hated being around that. I didn't like anything to do with being around people, for the most part. I mean, I could be around them, just not in a talking situation, and that would make it even worse.

  Zack Greinke

  Mean, People, Attention

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• I always want to take everybody down! But I think you can do it with a smile on your face and be nice and talking to them. You don't have to be mean or rude.

  Lorena Ochoa

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

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• I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

  Justin Verlander

  Guy, Listening, Sound

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• Most of us recognize how important it is to listen respectfully when our loved ones are talking; but we often forget that it is equally important to talk respectfully when they are listening.

  Mardy Grothe

  Listening, Important, Forget

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• Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

  William James

  People, Unhappiness

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• If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Details, Needs

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath.

  Bob Arum

  Fighting, Yankees, Yankee Stadium

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• I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Dog, Thinking, My Boyfriend

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• If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Mean, May

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• Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.

  Mardy Grothe

  People, Listening, Trying

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• When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years.

  Lester Flatt

  Years, People, Sound

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• Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spiritual, Drinking, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.151, Shambhala Publications

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• Stop talking about the way things are, unless you like them.

  Esther Hicks

  Way

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• A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Opinion, Great Men

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.256, PublicAffairs

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• Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

  Carolyn Hax

  Concern, Contact, Business Related

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.

  Jonathan Tucker

  I Like You, Cutting, People

  Source: collider.com

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