Quotes About Verbalization

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

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

Verbalizing has a soothing effect on the nervous systems of children. (Adults, too.)

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

she'd stumble over a word

I think it. I say it. You hear it. Sometimes, I don't even think it, I just say it.

Speaking activates a different part of the brain. If you're trying to understand something, or increase your chance of remembering it later, say it out loud. Better

Talk. I pointed to my board. I hit the word again and again. Talk. Talk. Talk.

It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. 

Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say.

Lot of talky-talk in there, they had to open the windows to let the words out

Speech is a rolling machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.

If we went out on the street dressed the way we talk, we should be arrested for indecentexposure. JAMES THURBER

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Well here again that don't apply But I've gotta use words when I talk to you.

Sometimes she can't find the right word, but she can find a word close to what she means. Anomia, the speech therapist calls

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

I find that if you just talk, your mouth comes up with stuff.

We use the word 'LOVE' for camouflaging so many of our emotions. Why can't we use different words to convey different feelings? Why use a word when we don't sincerely mean it?

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement. The latter (verbalization) can only be the secondary expression of the relationship with God, an overflow from the encounter between the living God and the living person.