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  • Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.

    "Wong Kar-wai, Master of Hong Kong Cinema, on His Journey to 'The Grandmaster'". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 24, 2013.
  • Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

    Gossip   News   Garbage  
    Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017
  • When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

    Men   Two   Talking  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”
  • We used to say that those amongst us with the most sins are those who spend their time talking about the sins of others.

  • Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.

  • We're talking too much about what goes on in the stands, nothing about what goes on on the court.

    Source: www.usatoday.com
  • Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.23, e-artnow
  • Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

    "Comedian Louis C.K.: Finding Laughs Post-Divorce". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 7, 2010.
  • We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

  • I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

    "Character Finds A Path Out Of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 15, 2015.
  • It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.19, Xist Publishing
  • talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”
  • Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library
  • You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.

    "Red Auerbach: What I've Learned" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

  • Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their own right. When people talk to writers about their work, they ask about their ideas and inspirations. When they talk to photographers, they ask about what cameras or film they use. That's wrong - as wrong as asking a writer what pencil and laptop he uses.

  • The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]
  • It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

    Funny   Sports   Baseball  
    "Stay Sought-After by Connecting Better in Conversation" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.
  • One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

  • Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

    "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.
  • If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.

    Thinking   Talking   Mind  
  • The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

  • Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

  • One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.70, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.

    "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com.
  • Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

  • There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

    Sleep   Self   Talking  
  • If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

    Rapper   Talking   Long  
  • Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.

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