796 quotes found
“Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers.”
“...why, when people write words do they capitalize I? Why not capitalize You too? For You are as important as I am. Its hard for me to understand the human ways.”
“A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.”
“Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my ve...”
“Quotes tell a story. A stringing together of a few words can leave you with an idea that changes the course of your life, and can direct you toward reaching your highest potential as a human. The s...”
“Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.”
“... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the first to...”
“You Are At Different Levels With Different People.”
“There was so much to say that we said nothing.”
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything e...”
“Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.”
“Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly”
“Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.”
“Faeces by any other name would smell as gross”
“Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well as started wars, paved the way for peace and carried with them both hope as well ...”
“Communication is the real work of leadership.”
“Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.”
“Clarity leads to attention and attention leads to results.”
“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We...”
“Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.”
