Erin O'Connor Quotes

I've really learned to watch what I say.

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

I will begin to speak when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

I don't like to filter myself, but I do it for PR's sake.

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.