Spontaneous Communication Quotes

When I was a young fellow, I used to learn the dialogue backwards. The point is that in a conversation between two people, you can't have already made the decisions about what you're gonna do. You gotta be very light on your feet. That leads you into areas where conversations can have a much bigger, grander meaning.

If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.

The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth.

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought.

Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.

Talk without effort is nothing.

Whenever you hear me talk about anything, you never know what I'm going to say until the words come out of my mouth. I'm not one of these Rush Limbaugh individuals, you know what he's going to say before it comes out of his mouth. Whatever the Democrats say, not 99 percent of the time, 100 percent of the time, he's on the opposite side. That's not the way I am.

It's so liberating to just have absolutely no filter and say exactly what's on your mind because you don't know otherwise.