speaking

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4fc7e41	Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don't listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don't listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what's behind the words.	action integrity leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational actions integrity-quotes speaking listen speak communication listening honest curiosity	Roy T. Bennett
92e395d	I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.	words depression fear life speaking	Andrew Solomon
4714433	"Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)"	words speaking taciturnity expression	William Shakespeare
66cf88a	Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes.	integrity reality speaking-up speaking-out speaking choose honor voice	Terry Tempest Williams
bae6983	Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.	speaking shy	E.M. Forster
ca72a9f	"Royce saw to his horse's needs; then, finding a suitable place, he unrolled his blanket and lay down. "I take it we're camping here, then?" Royce said nothing, still refusing to acknowledge his existence. "You could have said, 'We're going to bed down here for the rest of the night.' No, wait, you're right, too much. How about 'sleeping here'? Two words. Even you could manage that, right? I mean, I know you can talk. You had plenty to say back in Arcadius's office. Couldn't keep the words from coming out then, but no, utterly impossible to indicate in any way that we'll be stopping here for the night." Hadrian dismounted and began unloading Dancer. "How long were we on the road?" He paused to look up at the moon. "What? Five, six hours? Not a damn word. Getting chilly out, don't you think, Hadrian? Moon looks like a fingernail, ain't that right, Hadrian? That tree looks like a goddamn bear, don't it, Hadrian? Nothing. By the way, in case you hadn't noticed, I was attacked by a goshawk and a pig-riding dwarf that shot eggs at me with a sling. I was knocked from my horse and wrestled with the dwarf, the hawk, and the pig for what had to be half an hour. The dwarf kept smashing eggs in my face, and that ruddy pig pinned me down, licking them off. I only got away because the dwarf ran out of eggs. Then the hawk turned into a moth that became distracted by the light of the moon." Royce shifted to his side, hood up. "Yeah, well ... thank Maribor and Novron I didn't need your help that time." "Didn't care for my help too much in the stable," Royce said. "It speaks!"	speaking silent	Michael J. Sullivan
52e328f	That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.	words true change speaking feel power	Nicholas Sparks
498772d	O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go.	pause thoughtlessness foot-in-mouth speaking	Russell Hoban
d90ea88	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.	truth speaking language talking	Max Barry
9fb0c53	I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words	words silence life tragedies speaking master silent talking	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
fd13651	At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary for the good of mankind. Thousands of us published and wrote in an effort to teach others, all the while disclaiming and abusing one another. Without taking note of the fact that we knew nothing, that we did not know the answer to the simplest question of life, the question of what is right and what is wrong, we all went on talking without listening to one another.	writing speaking	Leo Tolstoy
657266b	"She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!" thought Flora. " --	words vacuums squirrels speaking sentences	Kate DiCamillo
dc63d71	When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win! Conversations aren't contests! Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead.	thoughts humour speaking thinking ideas	Bill Watterson
1e6a305	Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.	speaking shy talking quiet shyness	Gillian Flynn
4868850	God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down here. We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke, each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her script, too. And a sorry one it was.	living god life down-here each-day scripts spoke written spoken-words speaking players mothers thought	V.C. Andrews
3940b17	Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.	libraries library books dialogues-between-books parchment speaking dialogue	Umberto Eco
a10a7e2	Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.	speaking students	Edgar Rice Burroughs
f1c42c3	Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge - how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip - from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man's face as he listens to himself speak.	speaking contemplation quiet	Neal Stephenson
37144e4	"Tell me everything it explains," he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene."	moist obscene sensual speaking	James S.A. Corey
38e3123	Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge - how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip - from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man's face as he listens to himself speak.	speaking quiet	Neal Stephenson
1fd1fb1	The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.	existence courage challenges speaking teachers mistakes teaching	Madeleine L'Engle
771119b	She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?	speaking	L.M. Montgomery

4fc7e41

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don't listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don't listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what's behind the words.

action integrity leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational actions integrity-quotes speaking listen speak communication listening honest curiosity

Roy T. Bennett

92e395d

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

words depression fear life speaking

Andrew Solomon

4714433

"Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)"

words speaking taciturnity expression

William Shakespeare

66cf88a

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes.

integrity reality speaking-up speaking-out speaking choose honor voice

Terry Tempest Williams

bae6983

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

speaking shy

E.M. Forster

ca72a9f

"Royce saw to his horse's needs; then, finding a suitable place, he unrolled his blanket and lay down. "I take it we're camping here, then?" Royce said nothing, still refusing to acknowledge his existence. "You could have said, 'We're going to bed down here for the rest of the night.' No, wait, you're right, too much. How about 'sleeping here'? Two words. Even you could manage that, right? I mean, I know you can talk. You had plenty to say back in Arcadius's office. Couldn't keep the words from coming out then, but no, utterly impossible to indicate in any way that we'll be stopping here for the night." Hadrian dismounted and began unloading Dancer. "How long were we on the road?" He paused to look up at the moon. "What? Five, six hours? Not a damn word. Getting chilly out, don't you think, Hadrian? Moon looks like a fingernail, ain't that right, Hadrian? That tree looks like a goddamn bear, don't it, Hadrian? Nothing. By the way, in case you hadn't noticed, I was attacked by a goshawk and a pig-riding dwarf that shot eggs at me with a sling. I was knocked from my horse and wrestled with the dwarf, the hawk, and the pig for what had to be half an hour. The dwarf kept smashing eggs in my face, and that ruddy pig pinned me down, licking them off. I only got away because the dwarf ran out of eggs. Then the hawk turned into a moth that became distracted by the light of the moon." Royce shifted to his side, hood up. "Yeah, well ... thank Maribor and Novron I didn't need your help that time." "Didn't care for my help too much in the stable," Royce said. "It speaks!"

speaking silent

Michael J. Sullivan

52e328f

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

words true change speaking feel power

Nicholas Sparks

498772d

O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go.

pause thoughtlessness foot-in-mouth speaking

Russell Hoban

d90ea88

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.

truth speaking language talking

Max Barry

9fb0c53

I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words

words silence life tragedies speaking master silent talking

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

fd13651

At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary for the good of mankind. Thousands of us published and wrote in an effort to teach others, all the while disclaiming and abusing one another. Without taking note of the fact that we knew nothing, that we did not know the answer to the simplest question of life, the question of what is right and what is wrong, we all went on talking without listening to one another.

writing speaking

Leo Tolstoy

657266b

"She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!" thought Flora. " --

words vacuums squirrels speaking sentences

Kate DiCamillo

dc63d71

When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win! Conversations aren't contests! Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead.

thoughts humour speaking thinking ideas

Bill Watterson

1e6a305

Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.

speaking shy talking quiet shyness

Gillian Flynn

4868850

God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down here. We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke, each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her script, too. And a sorry one it was.

living god life down-here each-day scripts spoke written spoken-words speaking players mothers thought

V.C. Andrews

3940b17

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

libraries library books dialogues-between-books parchment speaking dialogue

Umberto Eco

a10a7e2

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

speaking students

Edgar Rice Burroughs

f1c42c3

Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge - how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip - from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man's face as he listens to himself speak.

speaking contemplation quiet

Neal Stephenson

37144e4

"Tell me everything it explains," he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene."

moist obscene sensual speaking

James S.A. Corey

38e3123

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge - how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip - from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man's face as he listens to himself speak.

speaking quiet

Neal Stephenson

1fd1fb1

The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.

existence courage challenges speaking teachers mistakes teaching

Madeleine L'Engle

771119b

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

speaking

L.M. Montgomery