“You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.”

“Every now and then, when you're onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”

Shelley Winters (1920–2006) actress

“Each of you is perfect the way you are… and you can use a little improvement.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

“You are in my silences like a poet in search of words, like a sound in time with my heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.”

Susan Sontag book In America

“I then reached for a time honored tactic used by mathematicians: if you can't solve the real problem, change it into one you can solve.”

Mark Kac (1914–1984) Polish-American mathematician

“As enclosure by the lords increased national productivity by denying the individual peasant to keep a few sheep, so the encroachment of the loudspeaker has destroyed that silence which so far had given each man and woman his or her proper and equal voice. Unless you have access to a loudspeaker, you now are silenced.”

Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.”

Guy Kawasaki (1954) American businessman and author