Quotes About Articulation

I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that my ability to study came from a hunger to learn all the resources of articulation.

Every year, I spend time to improve how I communicate.

Clarity of communication is important.

What's the greatest advice I give? Develop excellent communication skills.

A big part of the job of being a showrunner is, in my way of thinking, being a good communicator because there's really no other way to have hope for getting what you want, at the end of the day.

I'm a communicator.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

I, too, had nothing to say, and I tried to say it as well as I could. What harm could so small a thing as saying nothing do to anyone?

She hadn't so much spoken the words as let them out of their cages….

Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it, you're halfway to Asphodel already.

I can see the…seams where they're put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don't have any place ready-made where they'll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren't even spoken.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.

Por mais que ame as palavras, por vezes elas são completamente insuficientes.

Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones.

It is not, however, only the word, it is also the thing, in all its infinite complexity, that he [Kafka] articulates with unrivaled courage and clarity. For, since he fears power in any form, since the real aim of his life is to withdraw from it, in whatever form it may appear, he detects it, identifies it, names it, and creates figures of it in every instance where others would accept it as being nothing out of the ordinary.

As Joan Didion said, "I don't know what I think until I write about it.

I can't translate myself into language any more.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.