Kristin Chenoweth Quotes

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

Don’t be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You’ll never find peace in that. (Acheron)

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun.

Listen more often than you speak.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.