Speech Quotes - Page 32

• The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

  John Heider

  Leadership, Long, Silence

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.23, Green Dragon Books

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• The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

  Ralph Charell

  Love, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, Together, Rural Areas

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• It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that we are doing something about violence and oppression. No doubt it is easier to pass a speech code or hate-crimes law and proclaim the streets safer than actually to make the streets safer, but the one must never be confused with the other... Indeed, equating "verbal violence" with physical violence is a treacherous, mischievous business.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Hate, Confused, Law

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• Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Moving, Light, Perfect

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• Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

  Oliver Herford

  Song, Silly, Ordinary

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

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• In a speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump responded to criticisms from Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out Graham's personal cellphone number. Graham knew something was up when he saw he had more than one missed call.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Numbers, Giving, Criticism

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• In an interview, Hillary Clinton said she likes nearly every flavor of ice cream. When he heard this, Chris Christie said 'Hey, she stole my speech.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Ice Cream, Hey, Flavor

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• One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Might

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized
  society.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Consistent

  "What I Believe", The Forum 84 (p. 139), September, 1930.

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• If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, House, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”

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• But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Apology, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.71

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• There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Creativity, Self Confidence

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Peaceful, Mind, Wish

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Desire, Action

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

  Martha Graham

  Storm, Technique, Adequate

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

  Jack Kornfield

  Party, Heart, Gossip

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

  Henry Bromell

  Music, Heart, People

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• There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

  Francois Hollande

  Freedom, Attachment, People

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• I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

  Pamela Geller

  Freedom, Savages, Violent

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• One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.

  Aziz Ansari

  Men, Drunk, Goal

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". TV Series "Parks and Recreation" ("Andy and April's Fancy Party", 2011), 2009-2015.

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• Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.

  Rickey Henderson

  Ties, Necks, Kind

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• If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.

  Lawrence Bender

  Tears, President, Looks

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• I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.

  Tony Abbott

  Real, Thinking, Racism

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it's not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is the power to maintain insight alive in every moment, so that every speech, every word, every act will bear the nature of that insight. It is a question of cleaning. And you clean better if you are surrounded by those who are practicing exactly the same.

  Nhat Hanh

  Strong, Buddhism, Practice

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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