Talking Too Much Quotes:

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

- Ottessa Moshfegh

topic: Talking, Talking Too Much, Too Much

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Sports, Baseball, Meaningful Conversations, Yankees Baseball

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

- Robert Frost

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Effective Communication, Good Communication

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

- Eliphas Levi

topic: Success, Strong, People, Strong People, Talkative

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

- Tupac Shakur

topic: Rapper, Talking, Long, Talking Too Much

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.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Thinking, Talking, Mind, Thinking Too Much, Talking Too Much

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

topic: Talking, Littles, Too Much, Talking Too Much

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

- Helen Gurley Brown

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Talking, Failing, Boring, Talking Too Much

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.

- Margaret Chase Smith

topic: Respect, Thinking, People, Talking Too Much

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Confidence, Communication, Mean, Concealment, Concealing

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

- Louis C. K.

source: "Comedian Louis C.K.: Finding Laughs Post-Divorce". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 7, 2010.

topic: Thinking, Talking, Laughing, Talking Too Much

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

topic: Communication, Talking, Attention, Talking Too Much

Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

- Grant Cardone

source: Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017

topic: Gossip, News, Garbage, Bad News, Garbage Trucks

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.

- Meg Greenfield

topic: Sleep, Self, Talking, Never Sleep, Self-satisfaction

We used to say that those amongst us with the most sins are those who spend their time talking about the sins of others.

- Ibn Sirin

topic: Wisdom, Islamic, Talking, Talking Too Much

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Talking, Littles, Too Much, Talking Too Much

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.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

topic: Men, Two, Talking, Talking Too Much

As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.

- Chris Noth

topic: Character, Talking, People, Time To Leave, Talking Too Much

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.

- Saint Francis de Sales

topic: Simple, Attachment, Talking, Talking Too Much

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

topic: Basketball, Player, Talking, Talking Too Much

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]

topic: Women, Memorable, Important, Misquoting, Polonius

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

source: "Wong Kar-wai, Master of Hong Kong Cinema, on His Journey to 'The Grandmaster'". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 24, 2013.

topic: Encouragement, Talking, Giving, Talking Too Much

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

- Jose Marti

source: "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

topic: Greatness, Men, Deeds, Evaporation, Talking Too Much

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.

- Henry L. Stimson

topic: Talking, Too Much, Weakness, Talking Too Much

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

- Kevin Durant

source: Source: www.usatoday.com

topic: Talking, Goes On, Too Much, Talking Too Much

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.

- Peter Turnley

topic: Inspiration, Talking, Ideas, Ideas And Inspiration, Talking Too Much

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.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Thinking, Interesting, Alive, Glad To Be Alive, Green Gables

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.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Talking, People, Perfect, Aging Process, Talking Too Much

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

- Alejandro Zambra

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Children, Talking, Adults, Talking Too Much

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.

- Joe Eszterhas

topic: Writing, Cutting, Thinking, Talking Too Much