Jose Angel Gurria

You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.

Mexican Economist

Andrew Solomon

Nowadays, people often ask me when I came out, generalising from the experience of many young people who announce themselves to the world on a particular afternoon. But I did not divorce my reticence in a single sharp break. Rather, I seeped out like a spreading wine stain.

Writer

Kara Swisher

As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

American Journalist

Ngaio Marsh

I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.

New Zealander Writer

William Shatner

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

Canadian Actor

Gillian Armstrong

After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.

Australian Director

Enzo Ferrari

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Italian Designer

Pamela Stephenson

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Australian Actress

Lisa Guerrero

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

William E. Gladstone

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

British Leader

Reticence often implies emotional caution or self-protection in conversations.

Emotional Guard

In social settings, reticence can hint at introversion or discomfort.

Social Interactions

Reticence can indicate a polite way of declining to share information.

Polite Refusal

Reticence could contrast with someone's behavior in different contexts, such as being talkative online but quiet in person.

Expression Contrast

Reticence can be valued differently across cultures; some may view it as respectful, others as unfriendly.

Cultural Context

Reticence can be a strategy to avoid divulging information or to create intrigue.

Strategic Silence

In professional contexts, reticence can be seen as a way to maintain formality and discretion.

Professional Decorum

Reticence may cause ambiguity or misunderstandings if others expect more openness.

Ambiguity

 it feels like you're reticent there, and yet you've given us a vision of it being so possible. What's your reticence? Hendrik I don't think it's reticence. I think it's just that we have to think very deeply about the implications, ramifications of our actions,