Spoken Word Quotes - Page 6

• You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Choices

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Aug 08, 2016

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• Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?

  Deborah Smith

  Strong, Artist, Rights

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

  Jeff Britting

  Meter, Regularity, Certain

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Energy, Email, Imagine

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• I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information. Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.

  Tom Peters

  Important, Entering, May

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

  Orson Scott Card

  Parenting, Language Words, Silence

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• I never miss a good chance to shut up

  James Patterson

  Cowboy, Silence, Missing

  James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House

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• Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

  Will Durant

  Good Things, Good Communication, Things To Do

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

  Ann Landers

  Communication, Talking, May

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• If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

  Earl Wilson

  Communication, Writing, Thought Provoking

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• Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fall, Communication, Words You Speak

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation

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  Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Powerful, Reading, Communication

  Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

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• ...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

  Steve Martin

  Hurt, Heart, Events

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Mean

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

  Mark Twain

  Unspoken Words, Unspoken

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.521, Courier Corporation

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• Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Men, Views, Long

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.214, Psychology Press

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• As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Flower, Practice

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• Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.

  Viola Davis

  Eye, Different, Unspoken Words

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