Matisyahu Quotes

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.

Communication is important.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.

I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

I've really learned to watch what I say.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

I can't just close myself off to the world, because then I won't be inspired anymore. I won't be able to talk about nothing.

The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.