Quotes by Vocabulary So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure. Edward Sapir vocabulary spirit common I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?" Edward Villella vocabulary practice air The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. Edward Abbey taught entrepreneur vocabulary Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name." Edwidge Danticat vocabulary powerful talking I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it. Eli Roth vocabulary hate school I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. Elizabeth Taylor drawbacks vocabulary language Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring. Ellen Goodman vocabulary caring rights I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary. Elie Wiesel vocabulary people thinking It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing. Emma Watson vocabulary reading imagination Fear isn't in my vocabulary. Ernst Happel vocabulary Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. Eva Zeisel curves vocabulary design Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. Evan Esar vocabulary communication art One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. Evelyn Waugh vocabulary names needs Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security." Evgeny Morozov accountability innovation vocabulary Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product. Francois-Henri Pinault vocabulary running sports It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. Fred Frith vocabulary body doe It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that. Fritz Maytag pretentious vocabulary beer All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak. Gabourey Sidibe vocabulary fun people Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense. Francois de La Rochefoucauld progress vocabulary thinking The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being. Frederick Lenz buddhism vocabulary inspirational «1234567891011»