David Jeremiah Quotes

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

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.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

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

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

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

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

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

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

Let thy words be few when in the midst of many.

I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways to say X thing, but one will say it better than the other two. And in saying it better, it gets you closer to something.

I don't have a problem expressing myself.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

What you say is what matters.

Before you speak, listen.