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Quotes About Inflection

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.
~ Peter Mayle
They come from every culture but with timeless themes. CAMPBELL: The themes are timeless, and the inflection is to the culture.
~ Joseph Campbell
Imagine an inverted U-curve: as data initially becomes more available, decision accuracy improves; but beyond an inflection point of increasing information, the amount of data diminishes management's capacity to process the information and thus its ability to reach optimal decisions.20
~ Ram Charan
Intonation is the use of pitch to convey meaning in a language. It has been described as the music or melody of speech.
~ David Crystal
Back in 2005-2006 when Tudou and Youku were founded, we saw the inflection point with the opportunity to build the leading PC-based video website.
~ Victor Koo
No tugs, Number One?" the Captain inquired with a definite inflection to his voice. "You're well aware that I shall receive a complaint upon our return?" Drake shook his head. "I think not, sir. Even the Port Authority will have to admit that Princess Carla was merely showing her best. She has a fine backside and we owe it to her to show it off, now and again.
~ Derek Hart
A word can change so much depending on how you say it, or how you sing it.
~ Lights
If existing management want to keep their jobs when the basics of the business are undergoing profound change, they must adopt an outsider's intellectual objectivity. They must do what they need to do to get through the strategic inflection point unfettered by any emotional attachment to the past. That's what Gordon and I had to do when we figuratively went out the door, stomped out our cigarettes and returned to do the job.
~ Andrew S. Grove
On the other hand, when there's a fundamental change in the industry and you don't change your skills, you will lose at both winning companies and losing companies. That is a situation that can truly be classified as a career inflection point.
~ Andrew S. Grove
But data are about the past, and strategic inflection points are about the future.
~ Andrew S. Grove
The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.
~ Andrew S. Grove
In short, strategic inflection points are about fundamental change in any business, technological or not
~ Andrew S. Grove
either the intention of the myth is too obscure to be efficacious, or it is too clear to be believed. In either case, where is the ambiguity? This is but a false dilemma. Myth hides nothing and flaunts nothing: it distorts; myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. […] driven to having either to unveil or to liquidate the concept, it will naturalize it. We reach here the very principle of myth: it transforms history into nature.
~ Roland Barthes
Even their voices go up at the end of a declarative sentence
~ Edna Ferber
True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.
~ Barton Gellman
And she knew too: she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it; her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Inflection is the adjective of language. It carries the subtleties of delight and horror, the essence of culture and social process.
~ Frank Herbert
Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince to Earth, Wind and Fire. They would have different vocal inflections. If the line insinuated pain, they would cringe on some lines.
~ Trey Songz
I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.
~ Jonathan Krohn
In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
~ Beck
People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.
~ Matt Nix
Nothing in her inflection had changed; her expression was neutral, not hostile. And yet Alan felt as though the balance had shifted, and his footing was unsteady. He tried to get it back. "Were
~ Ellen Datlow
It is because the verb BE has a plain form which does not share its shape with any of the present tense forms that we need to distinguish the plain form as a distinct inflectional form. And if we do so for BE we should do so for all verbs.
~ Bas Aarts
In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
~ Beck