Quotes About Articulation

These values are 'distinctly European' because they were thought out, articulated and refined in the part of the planet that tends to be described as 'Europe proper', and their articulation and refinement cannot be separated from the course of Europe's history.

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.

The problem with cliches is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones. The sun is often on fire at sunset and the moon discreet, but if we keep saying this every time we encounter a sun or a moon, we will end up believing that this is the last rather than the first word to be said on the subject. Cliches are detrimental insofar as they inspire us to believe that they adequately describe a situation while merely grazing its surface.

conversation allows us little room to revise our original utterances, which ill suits our tendency not to know what we are trying to say until we have had at least one go at saying it...whereas writing.... is largely made up of rewriting, during which original thoughts- bare inarticulate strands- are enriched and nuanced over time...appear on a page according to the logic and aesthetic order they demand

Quo enim melius rem aliquam concipimus, eo magis determinati sumus ad eam unico modo exprimendam.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

Because sometimes words were so pitifully inadequate, and I knew that, but I had to try anyway.

Sometimes words were so pitifully inadequate.

I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

It is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them.

I wanted to say something, but I could not. It is difficult to find words when one really has something to say. And even if one knows the right words, then one is ashamed to say them. All these words belong to other, earlier centuries. Our time has not the words yet to express its feelings. We can only be offhand—anything else rings false.

Je voulais dire quelque chose, mais je n'y parvins pas. C'est difficile de trouver des mots lorsqu'on a quelque chose à dire.

Én meg szavakkal szeretném elmondani azt, amit szavakkal nehéz.

Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.

I took a moment just to process the creature's huge size.""Huh"", I managed, proving my mastery of articulation. Then it hit me. Not a thought; the dragon literally hit me, with a tail the size of a wagon.

As for cultural values, management has to develop and nurture the common set of values, objectives, and methods essential for the existence of trust. How do we do that? One way is by articulation, by spelling out these values, objectives, and methods. The other, even more important, way is by example. If our behavior at work will be regarded as in line with the values we profess, that fosters the development of a group culture.

One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.

On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!

Sometimes it's hard for me to express my emotions on a conscious level, to directly say my emotions.

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.