Julian Fellowes

I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else.

English Actor

Ava DuVernay

I'm a big people watcher and a people talker. The beautiful thing about being an artist and a creative person is that you can get an idea from anywhere, and I'm always on the hunt for them.

American Director

George Bernard Shaw

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Irish Playwright

Lisa Ling

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

American Journalist

John Madden

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

American Entertainer

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

French Philosopher

Thomas Sowell

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

American Economist

Natalie Cole

My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

American Musician

Eminem

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

American Rapper

Rafael dos Anjos

I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

Brazilian Athlete

Understand 'talker' can imply someone's nature, not just their action.

Personality Trait

'Big talker' often suggests someone may exaggerate or talk more than they act.

Not Always Positive

Some cultures value modesty and might see a 'great talker' as boastful.

Cultural Nuance

The focus here is on the speaker's ability to persuade, often in a slick manner.

Persuasion Skill

A 'slick talker' can sometimes use charm for deception; be wary.

Be Cautious

Smooth talkers often use emotions to connect and persuade their audience.

Emotional Influence

'Talker' can describe the pace or tone of speech someone typically uses.

Speaking Style

The way a 'talker' speaks can affect how well they are understood.

Communication Clarity

 Intelligent technology depends on personal data. Your pupil doesn't lie. Your eye gives away your poker face. When your brain's having to work harder, your autonomic nervous system drives your pupil to dilate. When it's not, it contracts. When I take away one of the voices, the cognitive effort to understand the talkers

Technology that knows...

 without even realizing that that's what you're doing. And groups famously follow the opinions of the most dominant or charismatic person in the room, even though there's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas -- I mean zero. So --

The power of introverts...

 shared their words of wisdom with the young people as well, and received the sense of relevancy in return. We are now published writers and youth program innovators and trauma experts and gun violence prevention advocates, and TED talkers and -- and good daddies.

Am I not human? A call...

 talker and having the best ideas I mean zero so you might be following the person with the best ideas but you might not and do you really want to leave it up to chance much better for everybody to go off by themselves generate their

 welcome to apply we're looking for makers and doers not just talkers or not just people that amazing potential we want to see someone that's already done something extraordinary and that we see a trajectory for them to increase the

The TED Fellows program

 Now there's millions of people around the world like Samantha, millions, and we've only begun to scratch the surface. What we've done so far is we have a few surrogate talkers from around the U.S. who have donated their voices,

Rupal Patel: Synthetic...

 Also convenient is the fact that most of today's big civility talkers tend to be quite vague and fuzzy when it comes to what they think civility actually entails. We're told that civility is simply a synonym for respect,

Is civility a sham? PIPE...

 He was an early talker. And so we started to analyze why. Why were certain words born before others? This is one of the first results that came out of our study a little over a year ago that really surprised us.

Deb Roy: The birth of a...

 I'll never have there's this old guy at work and he was a close talker and I thought who's try to avoid him whenever I could he's the nice guy you know his breath now it doesn't doesn't bother anyone

This Is What It's Like...

 he was a code talker during the war I asked him why he hadn't told me earlier he said I was sworn to secrecy and that's why he never said a word