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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.
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I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
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One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.
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I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.
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What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
- Patient
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.
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Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
- Heart
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Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.
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