Quotes About Verbal

My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

When [a man] thinks that he is reasoning he is really disputing, just because he cannot define and divide, and so know that of which he is speaking; and he will pursue a merely verbal opposition in the spirit of contention and not of fair discussion.

CALLICLES: There is no end to the rubbish this fellow speaks. Tell me, Socrates, aren't you ashamed at your age of laying these verbal traps and counting it a god-send if a man makes a slip of the tongue?

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

T]he left hemisphere [is] particularly good at recognizing serial events—events whose elements occur one after the other—and controlling sequences of behavior. The left hemisphere is also involved in controlling serial behaviors. The serial functions performed by the left hemisphere include verbal activities, such as talking, understanding the speech of other people, reading, and writing.

To oversimplify just a bit, the left hemisphere handles what is said; the right hemisphere focuses on how it's said—the nonverbal, often emotional cues delivered through gaze, facial expression, and intonation.

The Gospels, treated so solemnly in later Christian life and liturgy, are the distillation of traditions about Jesus, and as such were also naturally highly regarded and copied for subsequent generations, but they were not seen by the first Christians as verbally exact: there was no tradition, as there was in Judaism, of precise copying of the text Ã¢â'¬â€œ with the consequence that New Testament manuscripts vary greatly, and none is authoritative.

be sure your communication goes beyond words. How can you do that? By connecting on four levels: visually, intellectually, emotionally, and verbally.

Put simply, you can't ask your unconscious a question, and expect a direct answer—a neat, tidy little verbal message.

Verbal abuse is still abuse. It's abuse in the form of words. Don't assume that a few hurtful words won't cost them their life. Words hurt.

Education is education, be it verbal or written.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

He had a good vocabulary except when he was talking to someone.

Face-to-face communication is inherently real-time and combines both verbal and nonverbal information.

We share in the sin of the world. We are involved in it because in spite of our faith we are and remain sinners; we are also involved in the sin of humanity through the various 'orders' of life created by God, so that when a an of my family, or of my nation, commits a sin, I am responsible before God for this transgression. Only this truth must not remain merely a verbal one.

I just love it when certain people feel free to tell writers what the correct words are. When I hear the same people use impact as a verb, I want to throw up!

Within a year or two, however, a couple of the first things I wrote – 'Anarchy In The UK' and 'God Save The Queen' – really hit their target. I'd like to thank the British public library system: that was my training ground, that's where I learned to throw those verbal grenades. I wasn't just throwing bricks through shop windows as a voice of rebellion, I was throwing words where they really mattered. Words count.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Talking turned out to be Louise's talent. If talking were a sport, Louise would've been a marathoner.

men arguing over nothing but the sheer Italian love of verbal battle and mock outrage.