Henry Rollins Quotes

Michael Bisping just speaks to speak; he just talks to talk. He just tries to open his mouth so that something can be heard, but nothing's going to come out.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

That which makes much noise and does nothing useful.

They talk most who have the least to say.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Many words are spoken when there’s nothing to say.

I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.

I find it really cheap when people talk about an issue just for the sake of talking and are not making any difference to the actual situation.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.