{"quotes":[{"text":"God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent of grace to catch my wandering attention and quiet what Buddhists might call my “monkey mind,” which is more often than not swinging wildly from branch to branch on intellectual and emotional trees. On the way back down the hiking trail after my encounter with the hawk in Big Sky, I stopped thinking and started looking and listening. That's when I realized winter was turning into spring before me. Change was happening. Creation, and perhaps the Creator, was speaking. I just needed to be outside to hear the voice.","author":"Cathleen Falsani","tags":["creation","creator","god-s-voice","grace","nature","speaking"],"id":1149,"author_id":"Cathleen+Falsani"},{"text":"At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary for the good of mankind. Thousands of us published and wrote in an effort to teach others, all the while disclaiming and abusing one another. Without taking note of the fact that we knew nothing, that we did not know the answer to the simplest question of life, the question of what is right and what is wrong, we all went on talking without listening to one another.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["life-lessons","speaking","writing"],"id":10266,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.","author":"Molly Friedenfeld","tags":["joy","kind-words","kindness","love","peace","shores","speaking","spreading-sunshine","truth","wave","wisdom"],"id":11823,"author_id":"Molly+Friedenfeld"},{"text":"To communicate is truly a gift. It is a wondrous ability of your amazing human body, the ability that allows us to connect with other humans to give meaning to our lives. I will argue that it is what makes us human.","author":"Kathleen Depperschmidt","tags":["communication","connection","speaking","speech","speech-therapy"],"id":17246,"author_id":"Kathleen+Depperschmidt"},{"text":"Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!","author":"Carl William Brown","tags":["carl-william-brown","learner","reader","shakespeare","speaking","theory","writers"],"id":19039,"author_id":"Carl+William+Brown"},{"text":"Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.).","author":"Richie Norton","tags":["7-habits","age","ageism","consulting","courage","covey","experience","fear","richie-norton","ruckuslist","speaking","speed-of-trust","starting","stephen-covey","stephen-m-r-covey","time","times","young","youth"],"id":20708,"author_id":"Richie+Norton"},{"text":"Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.","author":"Daniel Alarcón","tags":["facts","lies","speaking","stories","storytelling","truth"],"id":23385,"author_id":"Daniel+Alarc%C3%B3n"},{"text":"Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["ability","alarcrity","anticipation","awake","aware","awareness","control","dawn","early","effort","fastness","in-charge","lateness","michael-bassey-johnson","preparation","situation","soul","speaking","versatile","versatility"],"id":23429,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Sometimes words I think are small come out big.","author":"Corey Ann Haydu","tags":["friendship","speaking","writing"],"id":26437,"author_id":"Corey+Ann+Haydu"},{"text":"Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge – how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip – from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man’s face as he listens to himself speak.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["action","contemplation","quiet","speaking"],"id":31241,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":177,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}