Taryn Simon Quotes

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Even silence speaks.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.

All the backstories are there but not talked about.

The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Language can do what it can’t say.

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

It isn’t what you say that counts, it’s what you don’t say

We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

I think just all girls are my mentors. I feel like I've learned everything I know from just being around other women and learning from them.

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head.

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.