Best influence & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.”

“There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.”

Ifs Should Made Language Force Influence Reform Ancestor Spelling

Book:A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

Source: A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

“The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.”

World Giving Real Values Language Process Feminism Influence Empowering Real Work Value Systems

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.”

America Language Influence Internet Conversation Computer Proportion Overwhelming Chatter

Book:The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

“The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.”

Has Beens Language Strong Sex Moral Four Influence Movement Responsible Legs Manners Nerves Occupation Weekend Bicycle Cycling Digestion Good Digestion Strong Legs

Author:John Galsworthy

“Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.”

Has Beens Language Clear Atheism Influence Taste Contemporary Contradiction Ambiguity Accord Straightforward Edited

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.”

Next Literature Language Race Written Influence Exaggeration English Literature Spoken Language

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself from cultural learning that is in conflict with how I want to live my life. 2) to empower myself to connect with myself and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. 3) to empower myself to create structures that support compassionate giving.”

“First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.”

Men Firsts Language Race History Influence Effects Speech Compare Illustration External Influences

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.”

Ifs World Body Language Principles Influence This World Taste Mere Active Seeds Your Body Temper Persuasion Contagion Pestilence

Book:Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

Source: Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

“Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. Music and movies. That's what's exciting about what we do, the fact that it's so global. It brings people together. People don't have to understand the language to laugh at actors. They're going to laugh even though they don't understand what they're saying. Cause they're seeing it.”

People World Facts Together Actors Language Causes Laughing Seeing Influence Exciting Influencing People World Music

Author:Brett Ratner

“I prefer girls to wear dresses because I like how they influence a woman's body language. I also love skirts. One of my favorite pieces of clothing is the pencil skirt because it obliges the wearer to have a pretty attitude. I like anything that shows a woman's legs because I love to see her skin and how she walks.”

Shows Body Girl Language Walks Attitude Pieces Influence Skins Dresses My Favorite Legs Clothings Pencils Skirts Body Language Women's Bodies

Author:Christian Louboutin

“The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.”

Mind Humans Language Simple Influence Weapons Human Mind Immense Translate Aspire Analogies Formidable

Author:Winston Churchill

“If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .”

People Ifs Long Literature Language Answers Race Influence Genius India Endure Treasure Cease Heritage Magnificent Epic Finest Inheritance Mahabharata Greatest Treasure

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.”

Firsts Use Three Language Failing Influence Century Keys Musician Jazz Creator Spread Decades Mature Quarters Armstrong Quarter Of A Century

Author:Dan Morgenstern

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.”

“A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.”

Thinking Language Influence Habit Tools Profound Programming Computer Programming Programming Languages

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.”

People Writing Firsts Father Language Difficult Influence Comparison

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.”

Thinking Writing Trying Years America Three Language Influence Three Years Polish Ukrainian

Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky

“Every language has influences and is an influence.”

Language Influence

Author:Amos Oz

“We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.”

Language Doubt Influence No Doubt Hunters Hunter's Thompson

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

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