- Language
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.
- Show
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
- Deeper
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020