Quotes by Vocabulary The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances. Gaston Bachelard psychology vocabulary names Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and vocabulary dumps that get in the way of the story you are telling. Once you accept that, what are you left with? You are left with the story you are telling. Gene Weingarten vocabulary dancing writing Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either. George Mikes vocabulary use average I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.' George Stephanopoulos vocabulary-words vocabulary The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial. George Weigel argentina vocabulary political I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness Glenn Close mental-illness vocabulary thinking My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next. Grace Paley vocabulary real writing My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. Grace Paley vocabulary useless writing In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. Harold Bloom psychology vocabulary giving The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work. Harold Rosenberg vocabulary struggle profound Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable. Hannah Arendt grammar vocabulary language Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. Harry Mathews vocabulary running thinking [The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so. Harry Shearer vocabulary class mean In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste. Helmut Newton vocabulary two art "Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary. George W. Bush reinvention fit vocabulary A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing. Henry Hazlitt vocabulary men thinking The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create market-driven subjects, modes of consciousness, and ways of understanding the world that promote accommodation, quietism and passivity. Henry Giroux vocabulary hard-work understanding Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study. Henry Petroski design-process vocabulary study It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament. Henry Theodore Tuckerman adjectives vocabulary character Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense. Herbert Spencer vocabulary men sex «23456789101112»