Henry Cloud Quotes

I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion.

You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam." He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us.

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

I guess a lot of people don't like talking.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.

I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.