Verbal Communication Quotes

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

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.

I never use my sword when the lash suffices, nor the lash when my tongue is enough.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Nothing on paper; paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

Words are also actions.

In my day-to-day, I might speak, like, 10 sentences.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a good fighter.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Language is the dress of thought.

… too much of a talker to be a deep thinker

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

Writing is always harder than talking.

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.