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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk. If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business. For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. Beware of the fool whose volume of words is as that of ten men, a hundred arrows shot and each one wide of the target. If thou art wise, shoot one and that one straight. |
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