“To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsYearsMindKindReadingEffortTalkingActivityMathematicsBusyMathMathematicalContemplationReasoningBehaviourSimplestNewtonNot TalkingCalculating Author:George Spencer-Brown
“I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.” MindI CanHelpingArtistOrderNaturalTalkingSubjectsFiguresExpressionPersonalitySize Author:Norman Rockwell
“I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff. I don't want to live on berries in the woods - I don't think anybody does.” ThinkingWantKindDoeWisdomPoliticsStuffSecretTalkingEconomyRevolutionWoodsLiberalismEstablishmentBerries Author:Louis O. Kelso
“Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.” PeopleThinkingTryingI CanRunningHouseFunTalkingNiceFansBusVery NiceNice People Author:Aaron Spelling
“[Marla, Shar and I] all have had very public breakups, so I think people know they can relate with us in one way or another. And this is one of the few reality shows where they didn't have the cameras right in people's faces. Like when we were sitting around the table talking with the divorced people, the cameras were way back. And we just listened. Sometimes people just need an ear.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsSometimesShowsRealityFacesTalkingSittingEarsCamerasTablesOne WayRelateBreakupDivorcedJust ListenSitting AroundReality Shows Author:Angie Everhart
“Well I'm Superman, just not action. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening. I also have a film that's premiering Vegas Film Festival, short film, directed by Joel Kelly, it's called Denial and it's a story, short film, 35 mm short film and it's about a man's struggle to choose between the woman of his dreams and his reality, so it's definitely different than Superman. So I'm really proud of that.” MenWellsKindDifferentStoriesDreamRealityActionFilmTalkingStruggleListeningProudDenialFestivalsVegasShort FilmsFilm FestivalsTalking And Listening Author:Brandon Routh
“That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.” KindStillsMatterReasonBigsWantedActorsLinesTalkingAnxietyTablesNervous Author:Gavin MacLeod
“Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsFilmCertainEmotionTalkingPolicyRegretAspectClimateCurrentsConfusedForeign PolicyDon't RegretAmerican Film Author:Neil Jordan
“I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.” WantHelpingFilmProcessTalkingTiredWork OutMidstArrangements Author:Steven Soderbergh
“The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.” IfsFirstsMadePlayCharacterWould BeWantedTalkingLaughingWrittenPhonesSydneyFiance Author:Victor Garber
“I don't have the first clue who he is talking about, because all I worry about is Jerome.” FirstsFunnyTalkingWorryNbaClue Author:Jerome James
“Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.” PeopleShouldMadeGovernmentLawEffortTalkingEconomyIntegrityConstitutionConvincedReformConventionsAttendingBloggers Author:John Jay Hooker
“I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.” ThinkingReasonLiteratureFeltTalkingStudentsSuperiorsInstanceNo ReasonCynical Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.” PeopleKnowsShouldWellsWould BeLiteratureDecisionTalkingSeeingPolicyExpertsCloning Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility.” NeedsSeemsLiteratureResponsibilityTalkingHealthyRight NowLifestyleAttemptingPositivelyHealthy LifestyleMcdonalds Author:Maria Bartiromo
“I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.” KnowsWayWellsLiteratureNaturalForgetTalkingWonderfulHonestCookingKitchenCrewLambs Author:Nigella Lawson
“Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.” FunnyTalkingIntelligentSomedayKeep Talking Author:Jane Wagner
“I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I just can't stand that sort of thing, talking to God about some cutesy thing that he'd done during the day. I don't think Hank Ketcham has any deep knowledge of things like that.” ThinkingDoneShowsReligiousTalkingAtheismPrayingPositive AtheismInstanceDespiseShallowMenaceTalking To God Author:Charles M. Schulz
“When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about.” KnowsWayFirstsMayDoeTwoTalkingKnownAtheismClaimsAssumingAtheistPositive AtheismTwo WaysAdmissionTheist Book:Why Atheism? Source: Why Atheism?
“Tough Olympic news for the Romneys. Ann Romney's horse Rafalka did not advance to the Olympic finals. Apparently it was beat by a smooth-talking socialist horse from Kenya.” FunnyTalkingNewsBeatsToughHorseFinalsSocialistOlympicsSmoothRomneyKenyaLondon Olympics Author:Conan O'Brien
“As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.” PeopleWorldNumbersTalkingFansBasketballSickTiredMaterialisticPeople Talking Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.” PeopleKnowsWantFunnyNamesDifficultPartyTalkingKnow HowRecordsGroupsTypeCome UpDinnerSillyFakeRoutineReally GreatDinner Party Author:Paul Rudd
“I open the driving range and I close it. I thought you ought to know that I work hard. I like practising. I enjoy it. If I did not enjoy it I would not do it. What is the point of going back to the hotel, having a drink and talking a load of bull?” IfsKnowsHardEnjoyTalkingHard WorkOughtDrinkGolfDrivingRangeHotelLoadBulls Author:Vijay Singh
“Have you ever actually listened to golfers talking to each other? "Looked good starting out..." "Better direction than last time..." "Who's away?..." It sounds like visitors' day at a home for the criminally insane.” HomeLastsSoundTalkingGolfStartingInsaneLast TimeGolfersVisitorsStarting Out Author:Peter Andrews
“If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, "What would make me happy?" In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn't work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs. I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.” IfsWayNeedsFeelsWellsMeanSelfPlayFeelingsAsksInterestAnswersEffortTalkingRolesFocusModelsGuidesSelfishnessRole ModelsYou ChooseSelf InterestMake You HappyMake Me HappyNot TalkingFeels RightLoving OthersPersonal Needs Author:Bernie Siegel
“There's nothing to Obama - nothing but platitudes. When it's time to get to the substance, we get contradictions and confusions. We don't think that he knows what he's talking about because it's true: He doesn't.” ThinkingKnowsTalkingConfusionSubstanceLiberalismContradictionPlatitudes Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of the need to blow some steam off?” PeopleNeedsDifferentHappensTalkingHeardStupidEmotionalBlowBonesReleaseGood TimesHatefulHaving A Good TimeSkullsSteamInitiationEmotional ReleaseSkull And Bones Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet.” IfsShouldHandsOrderTalkingBasketballBillsShakesRivalrySeattleLakersHatchetBygonesLet Bygones Be Bygones Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Man, I don't wanna do what all the other guys do. I don't wanna end up in the booth after the games telling you what I think and talking smack about the guys on the floor when they are a lot better than that. I wanna be different. I don't wanna be known as Commentator Shaq. I wanna be a doctor or something good. I wanna be Dr. Shaq, Officer Shaq, Deputy Shaq.” ThinkingMenDifferentEndsGuyGamesTalkingKnownMediaDoctorsNbaOfficersDrsOther GuysCommentatorsSmackDeputiesShaqSmack Talk Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.” WayFeelsYearsSaidSoulYoungWishTalkingWifeHusbandYears AgoLeavingMy WifeMy HusbandPolygamy Author:Brigham Young
“Every day I wrote in my journal: "How am I going to win today?" So that when the guys are talking about water-boarding I'm telling them they haven't even got the right towels.” TodayGuyWinningWaterTalkingHavensJournalTowels Author:Tina Fey
“When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.” PeopleThinkingTalkingInternetDescriptionWorking ItPeople Talking Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.” PeopleWorldSoundVoiceMy OwnTalkingSeeingOne ThingHorribleVideoInterviewsTapeRevulsion Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.” ShouldLongUseCareRealizingTalkingWillingHarmDespiteIdeologyEngagementEngagingAdversariesGorbachev Author:David Hoffman
“When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.” GovernmentTalkingResponseDisasterOfficials Author:Richard Norton Smith
“We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.” PeopleGivingBodyRealizingTalkingMouthsSignalsPosture Author:Andrew Stone
“The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.” ProblemAgeTalkingFootballAskingPressesKeep Talking Author:Kevin Kilbane
“When you're talking to a person, it only matters what they are perceiving. You only need them to perceive you as a loving husband. You don't necessarily need to be one. That's always a good road, if you actually are one. But what people are perceiving will dictate what their life is, and ultimately what your interaction is.” PeopleIfsNeedsPersonsMatterLife IsTalkingHusbandPerceiveInteractionLoving Husband Author:Will Smith
“You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online... You can't just trust someone that you meet online. People aren't always who they say they are.” PeopleSocialTalkingMediaCarefulSocial MediaOnline Author:Victoria Justice
“I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."” KnowsTryingMeanBigsGuyTermRoomsTalkingExcuseBunchHeyExcuse MeLayman Author:Mark Wahlberg
“One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayTalkingSeeingFrontsMen And WomenSoldierCreditMissionsGreat ThingsChiefsIntimateUniformsWoundedCommandersVisitingInteractingReedsCommander In ChiefAlways ThinkingBest Of The BestWounded Soldier Author:Barack Obama
“I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.” PeopleIfsWantTryingEnoughUniverseTalkingPersonalityDirectorsTheaterWoodyQuentinTarantinoAlmodovar Author:Antonio Banderas
“Most people don't know what they're talking about. They move their mouth and say things because they don't want to admit they don't know. Or they think they know, but it's just confabulation and biases. So ignore them unless what they say resonates with some real wisdom inside of you. Assume they're a fool and find out the truth for yourself.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantRealMovingTalkingFoolMouthsAssumingReal Wisdom Author:Derek Sivers
“Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.” LooksBitsTalkingComedyWonderfulHonestyPerspectiveDegreesJokesDistanceHopefullyExceptionDevices Author:Alexander Payne
“Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years old, I came home and recited all of the lines from it. Before I talked about Death Stars exploding and Tie Fighters I was talking about how funny Princess Leia was and how sarcastic Han Solo was. So to me that's always the most important thing, and I love hearing great actors say great lines.” YearsFirstsImportantWarHomeFilmActorsStarsLinesTalkingSawsImportant ThingsHearingDialogueFighterTiesSarcasticNutsPrincessSoloGreat ActorsExplodingLeiaDeath Star Author:Bryan Singer
“I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn at an Italian restaurant. I ran on stage, did my show, and then some guy in the audience threatened to kill me because he didn't like my joke. Instead of talking to him, I just ran off stage. And then, because I was late, the owner of the restaurant threatened to kill me. And I was 19 years old and so scared that I almost started crying. But, I've done every gig you can imagine, in every state.” YearsStatesDoneShowsGuyTalkingAudienceImagineStageCryCoupleLateJokesScaredRanRestaurantsOwnersBroadsItalianOne TimeThreatenedKill MeGigsBrooklynBad ExperiencesTalking To Him Author:Nick Swardson
“People are talking about sex. They're talking about sex with their husbands. They're talking about sex with their girlfriends. They're talking about sex with their partners. And because of all of this communication, women are having much more intimate relationships, which is fantastic.” PeopleSexTalkingCommunicationHusbandPartnersFantasticIntimateGirlfriendIntimate Relationships Author:E. L. James
“You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.” PeopleWantWritingRealWholeCareFictionTalkingGoneDetailsDon't CareReal Life Author:Alfonso Cuaron
“When you're in these movie deals and the studios are talking, they're putting business deals and packages together, but they're making calls based on previous relationships. They go, "Oh, let's call this actor because we did this with him, and he might like him. Does he like him? Let's piece them together." There's a brain behind that puzzle, and I want to be the brain.” WantDoeMightTogetherActorsDealsBehindsBrainTalkingPiecesStudiosPuzzlesPackagesBusiness Deals Author:Kevin Hart