Articulation Quotes

• The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Process, Thought Process

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1249, Anchor

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• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

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• Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Change, Language Words, Acting

  Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

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• Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Healing, Mystical, Primitive

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• Innovation requires articulation.

  Walter Isaacson

  Innovation

  Walter Isaacson (2014). “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Character, Men

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• When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

  William Safire

  Impossible, Rescue

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• Cooperation is in fact the living and productive pulsation of the multitudo. Cooperation is the articulation in which an infinite number of the singularities are composed as productive essence of the new. Cooperation is innovation, richness, and thus the basis of the creative surplus that defines the expression of the multitudo.

  Antonio Negri

  Expression, Essence, Numbers

  Antonio Negri (1999). “Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State”, p.345, U of Minnesota Press

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• The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Writing, Use, Tribes

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• A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

  Steve Vai

  Littles, Little Things, Moments

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

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• Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

  Tony Harrison

  Fighting, Tongue, Tied

  1978 'On Not Being Milton'.

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• Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

  Thomas Sowell

  Social Values, Safety, Diversity

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.110, Basic Books

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• Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Done, World

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• Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.

  Rumi

  Soul, Faces, Speak

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• I can't really articulate what I feel.

  Harold Pinter

  Feelings, Deep Thought, Feels

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. October 13, 2005.

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• When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Independent, Shopping, Streets

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• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much

  Parker Stevenson

  New York, Wall, School

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• A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

  John Baldessari

  Two, Surface

  Mark Lawrence Rosenthal, Marla Prather, Ian Alteveer, Rebecca Lowery, Polly Apfelbaum (2012). “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years”, p.119, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my own reality more real for others, as part of an effort to transcend emotional danger. For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Emotional, Effort

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• A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.

  Allan Bloom

  Views, People, Profound

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Important, Clarity

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hearing, Judgment, Deaf

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• In the case of man, righteousness is adjustment to God, and an articulation with man based upon that adjustment. Are you a righteous man? Am I a righteous man? Are you righteous? Then, if so, wherein does your righteousness consist? That your whole life is adjusted to God, and is moulded by that adjustment. This is righteousness.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Men, Righteous Man, Doe

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• I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

  Edna Longley

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

  "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

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• Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.

  Edwin H Friedman

  Moving, Communication, Emotional

  Edwin H. Friedman (2013). “Friedman's Fables”, p.13, Guilford Press

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