Quotes About Articulation

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Vatican II thus became, I repeat, a meeting in which the church explored and articulated anew its identity, recalled and developed its most precious values, and proclaimed to the world its sublime vision for humanity.

It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her.

Ceea ce-l deosebeÅŸte pe gînditor de scriitor e faptul c? gînditorul nu se apuc? s? scrie decît atunci cînd are ceva de spus. (Am formulat mai mult o dorin??, decît o constatare.)

Expression diminishes you, impoverishes you, lifts weights off you: expression is loss of substance, and liberation.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.

I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's.

Quite often people ask me 'Is there a word for... ' and go on to highlight a gap in our language that we need to fill.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender them.

It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.

des larmes plutôt gémies que pleurées, une douleur parlée plutôt que sentie

Too often, to speak is to "get it wrong.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

As Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.