Quotes About Articulation

But Lord! once one began mouthing words aloud, how silly they sounded!

La lengua inglesa, que puede expresar los pensamientos de Hamlet y la tragedia de Lear, carece de palabras para describir el escalofrío y el dolor de cabeza.

I do not know the words I must choose to make you understand why I was so tormented. Such words do not come in the small size that fits your everyday needs.

Successful people who cannot express themselves well? I can't think of one.

You must give the aggressive and hostile aspects of yourself constructive ways of expression through assertiveness, determination, self-assuredness, boldness, mental toughness, decisiveness, learning how to articulate one's feelings, speaking directly, forcefulness, and sport.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Have I ever sought release?" "In words. No. Never.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

If my love to you can't be said in a posy, it can't be said in a library.

Write until you have nothing left to say and then stop writing. Focus on content and quality rather than word count.

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.

Scared of words? I don't see why anybody ought to fear words. Words are tools; you have to know how to use them to get done the job you want to get done. Can't do the work if you're scared of the work.

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect.

you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.

We have words but sometimes they're not enough.