There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.
I don't have any problems getting people to open up.
No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
I don't mind Twitter. I think it's a lot of nonsense, but at least, to me, Twitter is just more of a public forum to have conversation.
It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.
In my day-to-day, I might speak, like, 10 sentences.
If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
As I started getting better and I had to go places and meet new people, there were times where you just couldn't keep to yourself. You had to speak to people.
Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
Conversation is a really good way to get things done.
