Quotes About Talking Less

#1. The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. While talking to the girls, I watched as Mega stared at me with his puppy dog eyes, I could care less.

Mz. Toni

#3. Whatcha do to Ricky Ricardo? Found him talking real fast in Spanish."

"Nothing." She looked at Tony. "He's just moody, and the moodier he gets, the less you can understand him.

Sidney Halston

#4. Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.

B. J. Porter

#5. I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?

Paul Krugman

#6. I'm merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.

Richard Carlson

#7. I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

Ronald Frame

#8. My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

Brandon Routh

#10. My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

Steve Nash

#11. I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Le Corbusier

#12. Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

Paul Feig

#13. Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. Okay heres the deal a whole day of NO TALKING IN SCJHOOL.Not in class,not in the halls, not on the plaground nowhere.No talking at all. And its a contest- BOYS AGAINST GIRLS. Whichever side talks less, wins.

Andrew Clements

#15. Thirty ways to shape up for summer. Number one: eat less. Number two: exercise more. Number three: what was I talking about again? I'm so hungry.

Maria Bamford

#16. You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound.

Montserrat Caballe

#17. Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country
demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.

M. E. W. Sherwood

#18. A high status male will make strong, powerful eye contact when he's talking to a girl, but he will make less eye contact when she's talking to him. This will make her work harder to gain his attention and win his approval. That's called the 90/60 Rule.

Robert Moore

#19. The funny thing is, the older I get, the less I enjoy talking when I act. I don't like talking anymore. I like behavior. All of the running and gunning, and the fights and the stunts, is just awesome fun.

Grant Bowler

#20. That's your dad talking, Mal. Your life won't be any less valid, or any less legitimate, if you don't have kids.

Hanya Yanagihara

#21. When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.

Bill Walton

#22. Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

Bill Gates

#23. It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.

Oliver DeMille

#24. She ran her hand over his head then gripped his hair. More licking. Less talking.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#25. Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

Sathya Sai Baba

#26. All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking ...

Deborah Tannen

#27. As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

Sheryl Sandberg

#28. What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.

Ze Frank

#29. If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say - and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right - but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting.

Brian Schweitzer

#30. The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.

Dharma Mittra

#31. Less fear, more courage.
Less doubt, more faith.
Less talking, more action.
Less ignorance, more knowledge.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#32. Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

Alexander Payne

#33. People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.

Christopher Monckton

#34. I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know ...

Arthur Miller

#35. If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Hedy Lamarr

#36. A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.

Brigham Young

#37. People are the undisputed experts on themselves. No one has been with them longer, or knows them better than they do themselves. In MI, the helper is a companion who typically does less than half of the talking.

William R. Miller

#38. There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.

Deborah Ellis

#39. A guy is on the radio talking about the war.
Speculating.
Speculating.
Speculating.
He says in less than two hours, we shall fight to preserve freedom.
Freedom.
America wants to give another country freedom.
That doesn't sound that bad, or does it.

Noah Cicero

#40. It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

#41. A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's not even talking about, you know, pay-wise.

Zach Braff

#42. On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog.
So there you go.

James Patterson

#43. 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

#44. You're talking like a Stalinist!' I cried. 'People don't get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves things that make them feel less bad about having jobs! Can't you see, it's just a terrible vicious circle!

Paul Murray

#45. The only way I could care less about what you're talking about is if you keep talking.

Brian Clevinger

#46. I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.

Twiggy

#47. Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues. We found that these less successful people tend to do most of the talking.

Neil Rackham

#48. Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

Brad Thor

#49. I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.

Kenneth Clarke

#50. Cinderella was the first fairy tale I remember - the one I was most obsessed with because of the gowns and magic and pretty shoes. Yes, her home life was less than ideal - and considering the talking mice and birds, she probably needed serious therapy.

Cindi Madsen

#51. When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?

Margaret Cho

#52. I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Robert Rauschenberg

#53. Why should going into a firefight, charging into an enemy station filled with people and automatic systems built to kill you, seem less frightening than talking to people who you shipped with for weeks?

James S.A. Corey

#54. The more I make films, the more I feel less inclined to talk about them and just let people watch them. I feel that the pictures are telling the story, and I can't really add anything except just talking about the technicalities of what happened on the day.

Gurinder Chadha

#55. The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself

Guy Finley

#56. It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

Rupert Graves

#57. Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

Walter Raleigh

#58. I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.

Ryan Gosling

#59. Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.

Will Rogers

#60. You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

David Brock

#61. There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

Dan Savage

#62. I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.

Philip Davies

#63. Do you know how long I've imagined seeing you this way?"

"Less talking."

"Oh no, my beauty. I plan to tell you exactly what you make me feel, and you will do the same for me."

~Ethan/Tayla

Rosalie Lario

#64. I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

Dennis Rodman

#65. 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

#66. Sometimes I'll go on a Twitter spree and reply as much as I can. Talking to my fans is so much fun even if it is in 140 characters or less.

Jordin Sparks

#67. It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

Nelson Mandela

#68. Law Number XLVIII: The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all your time talking about nothing.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#69. Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

Paul Buchheit

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

Bing Crosby

#71. I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.

Nicola Sturgeon

#72. I'm not talking nonsense, lass. I'd give you the whole of the moon if I could, and throw in the stars for good measure,' he said, taking her hand, and kissing it. 'You couldn't be content with less?

Georgette Heyer

#73. ... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

Idries Shah

#74. On some level, there's a limit to what the government really worries about when it comes to a guy like Ai Weiwei, who's talking to a limited audience of people. He's talking to people who more or less already agree with him.

Evan Osnos

#75. We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity ... by actually talking with them.

Daphne Koller

#76. One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking with members who commonly are described as 'less active.'

David A. Bednar

#77. We came when a lot of other Asian people came, after the law changed." "I remember that," I say. And I do, more or less. I remember Kennedy talking about the need for it - calling the old system of racist quotas intolerable - though it was Johnson who finally signed it.

Kathleen Rooney

#78. For me, talking about church in front of a bunch of Christians means approaching a microphone and attempting to explain the most important, complicated, beautiful, and heart-wrenching relationship of my life in thirty minutes or less without yelling or crying or saying any cuss words.

Rachel Held Evans

#79. It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

Sarah Dessen

#80. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.

Garance Dore

#81. One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.

Anna Quindlen

#82. If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.

G.K. Chesterton