Quotes About Articulation

I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language not to revel ourselves but to hide. I was as sure then as I am now that by looking at contemporary Iranian fiction I could gain access to a real understanding of political and social events. (p289)

Love is love, but there are so many ways of articulating it.

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

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

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

All power is an articulation of its wielder. There is no other source than life—and the desire of that life to express itself.

I think communication is so firsbern.

The best words not only pinpoint an idea better than any alternative but echo it in their sound and articulation, a phenomenon called phonesthetics, the feeling of sound.

Syntax is complex, but the complexity is there for a reason. For our thoughts are surely even more complex, and we are limited by a mouth that can pronounce a single word at a time.

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.

In any case, e lengeege weth e smell nember ef vewels cen remeen quete expresseve, so we cannot conclude that a hominid with a restricted vowel space had little language.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Sometimes it takes a long time to figure out what someone genuinely means when they are talking. This is because often they are articulating their ideas for the first time. They can't do it without wandering down blind alleys or making contradictory or even nonsensical claims. This is partly because talking (and thinking) is often more about forgetting than about remembering

Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening. Listening is paying attention. It's amazing what people will tell you if you listen. Sometimes if you listen to people they will even tell you what's wrong with them. Sometimes they will even tell you how they plan to fix it. Sometimes that helps you fix something wrong with yourself.

It is difficult to win an argument, or even begin one, if you have not carefully articulated what you want (or do not) and need (or do not).

Qué puedes hacer entonces si no se te da muy bien pensar, si no consigues ser dos personas al mismo tiempo? Es fácil. Habla.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening. Listening is paying attention. It's amazing what people will tell you if you listen.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening.

before a problem can be solved it must be formulated precisely.

Parler c'est parcourir un fil. Écrire c'est au contraire le posséder, le démêler.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.