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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.
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- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it's a surreal moment for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many can argue that it is our power of intelligence that is the key to the human domination of our planet. I suggest that it is the ability to put our thoughts into words that can be communicated to others.
- Handling
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020