Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.
I need complete silence when I write.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Listen to the sound of silence.
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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