Xenocrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
-
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
-
Honest communication is a rare thing.
-
I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
-
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
-
I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
-
Silence is my dignity.
-
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
-
Silence is a source of great strength.
-
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
-
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
-
Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.
-
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
-
You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
-
Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.
-
Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
-
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
-
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
-
What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.
-
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
-
If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.
-
I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.
-
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
