Quotes About Verbalization

People just wanted to open their mouths and talk, and they didn't much mind what came out.

If you must come out and say it, do it in dialog, not narration.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me.

Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.

The thoughts on the mind come out of the mouth.

He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another

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

Larry Bird was a talker. He'd tell you something and you'd be like, are you kidding me? You're really telling me that?

A verbalizing race has words for every old concept . . . and creates new words or new definitions for old words whenever a new concept comes along. Always! A nervous system that is able to verbalize cannot avoid verbalizing; it's automatic.

Why do we say "dumb" (mute) for stupid? Because "a good mind means a good mouth," and the human mind is a verbalizing circuit.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

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

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

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.

The greatest form of expression - or, at least, the most common that we have as human beings, what separates us from the animals - is speaking: the ability to communicate.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Ah!" said the therapist. "That's precisely what you're meant to do, you know. Thinking precedes verbalisation, and verbalisation precedes resolution. And much as I approve of that, what we're trying to do here is to find out what you think without thinking. In other words, we want to find out what's going on in your mind. Because that's what—

As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.