"Do not speak unless you can improve the silence."

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Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.73, Changemakers Books

Edmund Muskie

#Communication Quotes #Silence Quotes #Speak Quotes

“The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.”
“Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators”
“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”
“When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.”
“People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.”
“I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.”
“When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it.”

Source : Caragh M. O'Brien (2011). “Birthmarked”, p.247, Simon and Schuster
“I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater.”

Source : "Three Close-Ups at a Good Moment: Carice van Houten". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.

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