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- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of inventing a gobbledygook password, you join three simple words that come from a thought known only to you. If one day you were driving to work and ran over a frog that ended up flat, you might choose 'frog work flat.'
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
- Genealogy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
- Firm Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020