Ability To Speak Quotes

• The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

  Lowell Thomas

  Cutting, Men, Crowds

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• The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

  George Lucas

  Intelligent, Doe, Jinn

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

  Tim Ward

  Buddhist, Speaking Spanish, Silence

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.73, Changemakers Books

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• The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

  Wendell Berry

  Exactly Is, Speak, Ability

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Imagination in Place”, p.13, Counterpoint

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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  Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  Samuel Ullman

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Time

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• Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

  Edmund Muskie

  Communication, Speaking Spanish, Silence

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• The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

  Dale Carnegie

  Shortcuts, Speak, Distinction

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• In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

  David Mamet

  Television, Evening, Language

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Men, Thinking, Tests

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• Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

  Bill Viola

  Art, Self, Long

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• The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Matter, Speak

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• Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Inspirational, Music, Mother

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• At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

  David Puttnam

  Art, Struggle, People

  "A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Touching, Mind

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• I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.

  Osamu Dazai

  Agony, Optimism, Agitation

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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• President Obama said that if he could have any superpower, he'd want the ability to speak any language. That's so everyone in the world could tell him he picked one of the lamest possible superpowers.

  Jimmy Fallon

  President, World, Want

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• I think there was a lot of working out the arc of how Manny [Daniel Radcliffe] talks. Scene to scene [in the Swiss army Man], if I would start talking a little too well, they would come in and say like, "Hey, you need to [dial back] your ability to speak" - things like that.

  Paul Dano

  Army, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.

  Manuel II Palaiologos

  Strong, Mean, Blood

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• Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the throat and mouth. Then the first criterion for language that I had learned as a student—it is spoken and heard—was wrong; and, more important, language did not depend on our ability to speak and hear but must be a more abstract capacity of the brain. It was the brain that had language, and if that capacity was blocked in one channel, it would emerge through another.

  Harlan Lane

  Hands, Brain, Important

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• Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth.

  Joan Acocella

  Art, Dancing, Done

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• An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

  Daniel Yergin

  Past, Native Language, Environmental

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• So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.

  Michael Emerson

  Christian, Stress, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This is I think a dramatic point for conservatives. They are waking up to the fact that this guy, that Donald Trump has an ability to speak to people who they thought were theirs ideologically, people who they thought were a part of their team.

  Ben Domenech

  Team, Thinking, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Believe, Practice, Giving

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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