"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Fall Quotes #Communication Quotes #Words You Speak Quotes

“Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.”
“The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.”
“Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.”
“But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.”
“If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.”
“I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else.”
“I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.”
“Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses”

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