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“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.”

Art Ends Action Speech Conscious Utterance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.”

Writing Believe Lying Force Secret Style Speech Conscious Verbs Adjectives Nouns Pedigree Parts Of Speech

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.”

Use Figures Speech Conscious Figures Of Speech

Author:Mick Jagger

“To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to making as writing is to speech: it is an ordinary physical activity pushed to a conscious edge. That interference with the given world can still be founded on admiration. Where it is not, what is the point of designing at all?”

Thinking World Writing Mean Stills Might Given Design Activity Speech Ordinary Conscious Edges Admiration Interfere Interference Physical Activity

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Jobs Used Actors Can Do Knowing Fronts Speech Conscious Asking Cameras Nerves Funeral Self Conscious Eulogy

Author:Eddie Marsan

“I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.”

“You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt, careless, unpleasant to you in his character, in his speech, in his manners-because he is more conscious of his dignity than perhaps is necessary; or because he may be somewhat proud and disrespectful; but you yourself, your neighbor's physician and teacher, are more guilty than him.”

May Character Speak Teacher Humility Proud Speech Conscious Dignity Angry Neighbor Guilty Manners Despise Physicians Harsh Careless Disrespectful

Author:John of Kronstadt