Power Of Words Quotes - Page 3

• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  Faith Ringgold

  Love, Age, Trying

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• Your word is your bond.

  Melvyn Douglas

  Ties, Promise, Obligation

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

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

  Betty Eadie

  Understood, Our Thoughts, Ifs

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• The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

  William Hardy McNeill

  Wisdom, Islamic, Example

  "Keeping Together in Time". Book by William Hardy McNeill, Ch. 4: Religious Ceremonies, 1995.

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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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• 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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• I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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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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• We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Believe, Knowing

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

  Julia Cameron

  Children, Our World, Names

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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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• Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Thinking, Order

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Lonely, Pain

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.304, A&C Black

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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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• He also knows the power of word.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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