Quotes by Vocabulary I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well. Judith Butler vocabulary jobs sex For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality for instance that is somewhat controversial in academic circles and also outside of the academy. In other places, "Gender trouble" is old. Judith Butler vocabulary circles thinking I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary. Jules Feiffer vocabulary self thinking Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous. Julian Burnside vocabulary communication media Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world. Julian Jaynes vocabulary real mind One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking. Julian Baggini vocabulary self thinking [Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary. Junot Diaz vocabulary numbers people Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. Karen Russell vocabulary helping beautiful My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary. Karen Russell vocabulary dumb class The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. Karl Barth vocabulary christian conversation Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion. Kate Atkinson vocabulary emotion girl I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for. Katharine Fullerton Gerould pity vocabulary culture There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story. Kehinde Wiley vocabulary stories said I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice. Keith Fullerton Whitman vocabulary play thinking I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time. Kehinde Wiley vocabulary religious ideas I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language! Keith Urban vocabulary taken kids My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me. Kehinde Wiley vocabulary giving people The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important. Kenneth E. Iverson vocabulary important mind Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours. Kevin Rudd vocabulary compassion dirty I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio. Kiernan Shipka ballet vocabulary different «678910111213141516»