Quotes About Voice

legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice--that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another.

But in the end it comes down to a matter of respect, and the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, and the most corsive tone of voice that a doctor can assume is a dominant tone. 

the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice

This is called the "principle of legitimacy," and legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice—that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another.

If we want groups to serve as incubators for contagious messages, then.....we have to keep groups below the 150 Tipping Point. Above that point, there begin to be structural impediments to the ability of the group to agree and act with one voice.

Wealthy people get special insider deals, and if you and I lived in a country where the tax system was so blatantly illegitimate—where nothing seemed fair, and where our voices weren't heard, and where the rules changed from one day to the next—we wouldn't pay our taxes either.

When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.

All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.

We all have a voice of sorts and when put with others we make a good sound.

Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

It's why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I am addicted to the smell of chalk and white-board markers.

This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voice to nonhumans. As with all the most important artistic endeavors in human history, this is a task that is at once aesthetic and political—and because of the magnitude of the crisis that besets the planet, it is now freighted with the most pressing moral urgency.

Raising her voice, the woman said to the crowd, in archaic rustic Bengali: 'The time is here, pray that all goes well for our Laakhan, once again.

No entanto, não afirmo que qualquer um que levante a voz contra alguma coisa seja um fanático. Não sugiro que qualquer um que manifeste opiniões veementes seja um fanático, claro que não. Digo que a semente do fanatismo brota ao adoptar-se uma atitude de superioridade moral que impeça a obtenção de consensos.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back.