Ramin Djawadi Quotes

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

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

Sometimes a couple notes are worth a thousand words.

With actors and directors, it's a conversation that you have. You have to learn each other's language and learn how to communicate with each other effectively. It's really nice when you can have that communication on a level where they walk up to you and you can see by the expression on their face what they want. You don't even have to talk, it just like, "Got it!" And, you know what they want before they even ask for it.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

Communication is my thing.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.