How well do these Vulcan tips fit your thinking about talk?
Never:  Never use it: 
Try:  Might try it.
Use:  Use it as needed
Tell: Tell it to people who need it

Semantics:  When I use a word, it means just what I intend it to mean.

Don't speak of action in the passive voice.  No action is taken until someone takes it.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Abstract can be harder than concrete.

You know what abstract means.  Do you know what concretize means?

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.  Hamlet.

Think like a person of action and act like a person of thought.

To live is not enough for them.  They have to talk about it.

Dialog is not a solitary task.