Quotes About Articulation

It was difficult to find the right words, words which could also explain to her what she herself was feeling.

How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.

He doesn't have feelings, he only has streams of words about feelings.

She was angry with him, turning everything into words. Violets were Juno's eyelids, and windflowers were on ravished brides. How she hated words, always coming between her and life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the life-sap out of living things.

He doesn't have feelings, he only has streams of words about feelings. I'm tired of self-important mentalities.

leadership usually gravitates to the man who can get up and say what he thinks.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. – Dianna Booher

We had to learn their vocabularies in order to be able to run their problems. I could switch my vocabulary and speak highly technical for the programmers, and then tell the same things to the managers a few hours later but with a totally different vocabulary." Innovation requires articulation.

En otros movimientos de los labios participan músculos distintos, como los «que llevan los labios a un punto; otros que los aplastan, otros que los vuelven hacia atrás; otros que los enderezan; otros que los tuercen y otros, al final, que los devuelven a su primera posición».

Their throat muscles shifted sharply when they spoke, as if separately manufacturing each word.

You get to define the terms of your life. You get to negotiate and articulate the complexities and contradictions of your feelings...

When I have something to say that's particularly hard to say, I often write it down first.

The point is, Johnny, you get to say. You get to define the terms of your life. You get to negotiate and articulate the complexities and contradictions of your feelings for this woman. You get to describe the particular kind of oh-shit-I-didn't-mean-to-fall-in-love-but-I-sorta-did love you appear to have for her.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly & desperately drunk with a certain belief; it agitates & tears him, & almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Man created words to free himself

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning. ~ Marianne Dashwood

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

word choice and ordering (diction and syntax). He

clarity of writing indicates clarity of thinking.

How the word is spoken can dramatically impact the power of the spoken word.