Less You Talk Quotes

#1. The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Abigail Van Buren

#2. The more you know the less you talk.

A.R. Rahman

#3. The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

Jennifer Garner

#4. The less you talk about your shame, the more of it you have.

Mark Manson

#5. Disappear while you are alive! The less you talk about yourself, the less you think about yourself, the journey to disappearance begins! Forget about yourself! Disappear! When you go, universe will replace your place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Many breeders, breed clubs and apparently the AKC believe that the less you talk about a problem, the more likely it is to go away.

George A. Padgett

#7. The less you talk out loud, the more you talk in your head.

Quil Carter

#8. Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

Mark McCormack

#9. I cannot make speeches, Emma ... If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Jane Austen

#10. Forcing him to talk about feelings all the time will not only make you seem needy, it will eventually make him lose respect. And when he loses respect, he'll pay even less attention to your feelings.

Sherry Argov

#11. You would do well to listen more and talk less, boy.

Rick Riordan

#12. Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

Alan Cumming

#13. In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.

Gloria Steinem

#14. Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

Jean De La Bruyere

#15. Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn't mean you care more. Just because someone doesn't talk about it and advocates a different position doesn't mean they care less.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. The more you talk of it, the less you understand.

Laozi

#17. Have you ever noticed that the less interesting something is, the longer people want to talk about it?

Nicholas Sparks

#18. You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.
- Breeze

Brandon Sanderson

#19. People who relax by watching TV instead of going out to engage with the world tend to be far less energetic. the benefits of exercise in protecting against depression and mental ill-health are huge. Those around you can also affect your energy levels. Self-talk also works wonders on energy levels.

Liz Miller

#20. People talk to you and they try to convince you that they like what they do just because it sucks less than what they used to do ... which sucked a lot.

Doug Stanhope

#21. I realise that you are, like, bursting with a constant need to rub yourself up against girl flesh or whatever, but can you just try to talk about it a little less in front of me

John Green

#22. People are both more willing and less willing to talk to you when you're a writer.

Jesse Kellerman

#23. In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

Dan Rosensweig

#24. If all you talk about is what you have, it shows the less you have.

Pontius Joseph

#25. The more you talk, the less you'll have to say.
The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say.

Ralph Nader

#26. Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

Lord Chesterfield

#27. Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

George Horace Lorimer

#28. There's a less than one percent chance of a vasectomy failing, but it does happen. And you know there were complications . . ." "Please don't talk about the complications.

Jeff Strand

#29. Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#30. As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.

Caroline Blackwood

#31. See, you think I give a shit. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of shit? That's why I look interested.

Justin Halpern

#32. Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Penelope Cruz

#33. After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Criss Jami

#34. I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Stephen King

#35. It's all about getting the hand of things. Easy does it; take it easy. You'll figure everything out in time. But for right now, just keep trying. Pay attention and avoid the temptation to go further than you're ready. Talk less. And listen more.

Kate Jacobs

#36. There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.

Mother Teresa

#37. Okay, I'm dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from ... from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary)
(Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.)
Oh, like I'm any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#38. I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

Vikram Seth

#39. I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.

Geraldine Brooks

#40. As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter.

Jonathan Raymond

#41. The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Katharine Whitehorn

#42. I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Alan Bennett

#43. If you chose Option 2 [confrontation], you did well. People will be less likely to engage you in office small talk of any kind, but that's likely a benefit when you consider the fact that every ten minutes of office small talk takes one year off of your life.

Baratunde R. Thurston

#44. Make a list of all the varieties of aliens you can come up with. (And if it's less than 3,000, then THE PEARS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU, MY FRIEND.) -Scott Westerfeld from NaNoWriMo Pep Talk.

Scott Westerfeld

#45. I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.

Bruno Heller

#46. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Jane Austen

#47. The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

Clint Eastwood

#48. Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

Bing Crosby

#49. I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

Karl Rove

#50. Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

James Lipton

#51. We realy must work on our communitcation. Perhaps if you were not so constantly intrested in other forms of intimacy, I might actually have access to the information I need to survive with my temper intact!" Alexia poked at him with a sharp finger. "More talk, less bed sport.

Gail Carriger

#52. When you lose, talk little. When you win, talk less.

Tom Brady

#53. Or your arms," Trenton added. "Because if you ever talk to her with anything less than a respectful tone again, I will rip those fuckers off and beat you with 'em. Do we understand each other?

Jamie McGuire