Power Of Words Quotes - Page 3

• My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

  Joseph Conrad

  Writing, Trying, Tasks

  The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)

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• Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Friendship, Underestimate, Heal

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.494, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.

  Betty Eadie

  Understood, Our Thoughts, Ifs

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• Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

  Hermann Bahr

  Men, Mouths, Speak

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• Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Book, Reading, Childhood

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Father, Reading

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• If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

  Marlo Thomas

  Book, World, Firsts

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• I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Writing, Torn Apart

  Interview with Frank Andrick, www.artistwd.com.

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• He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Writing, News Stories

  Robert Cormier (2013). “I Am the Cheese”, p.120, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Believe, Ifs, Universe

  N. Scott Momaday, Charles Woodard (1989). “Ancestral voice: conversations with N. Scott Momaday”

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• Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Ignorance, Thinking

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• Existence is beyond the power of words to define:
  Terms may be used
  But are none of them absolute.

  Witter Bynner

  May, Used, Existence

  Witter Bynner, James Kraft (1995). “The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters”

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• The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, True Power, Skinny

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• If you tell somebody enough, "You're stupid, you're not worth it, you can't do this, you can't do that," then how many times do you have to hear that before you believe it? The power of words is immeasurable.

  Christi Paul

  Stupid, Believe, Enough

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

  Jimmy Wayne

  Song, Heal, Knows

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• I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Age

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• Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• He also knows the power of word.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Knows

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• There are things you can describe in life and things you just can’t. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that you can tell about… well, then there’s hope and joy and love – and those are beyond the power of words to describe.

  Andrew Klavan

  Adventure, Joy, And Love

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• Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

  Norman Mailer

  Opportunity, Frail, Khomeini

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• Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually, you will experience ecstasy and knowledge beyond the power of words to describe!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Energy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• I've spent years studying words. Linguistics, language, the power of words, the power of phrases on human beings. All of that. It's part of my, almost obsessive, fascination. It turns out that there are some keys that we all need to know about how conversations impact us, because they do at a chemical level. There are certain things that if we learned this, it would totally change our interactions with others, and that's the following. There are certain words that have a feeling of, "I love you, I care for you, you're in my tribe."

  Judith E. Glaser

  Love You, Feelings, Care

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. Weve lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which earthly things overhear us.

  David Abram

  Order, Ears, Speech

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• There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Attitude, Communication, Form

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