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“I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.”

People Thinking World Important Ideas Games Language My Own Flow Copies Imagery Outside World

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.”

Thinking Way Heart Important School Turns Speak Language Class Cutting Music Is Crosses Vices Observation Granted Borders Vice Versa

Author:Dan Rather

“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.”

Ifs Knows World Important Dream Language Hours Deals Written Missing Communication Busy Myth Outside World

Book:The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths

Source: The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths

“The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.”

Art Important Language Activity Art Is Universal Importance

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.”

People Thinking World Important Able Speak Language Grew Grew Up Absolutes Important Things Privilege

Author:Lucy Liu

“What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.”

Looks Said Important Shows Age Lasts Language Written Essence Prose Talk Shows

Author:Peter Brodie

“The great shift... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the "sciences." This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is... especially important in psychology... and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.”

Important Purpose Values Humanity Language Social Behinds Psychology Movement Discipline Deny Screens Social Science Valuation

Author:Thomas Szasz

“'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'”

Men Humans Important Ideas Character Names Language Given Originals Obscure

Author:Laura Riding

“Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.”

Important Body Language Dialogue Composition Can Not Body Language

Author:Anton Corbijn

“Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.”

Art Important Artist Language Realism Realist Alphabet Art Education

Author:Igor Babailov

“What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.”

Thinking Kind Art Important Hard Problem Happens Language Answers Painting Paint Historian Art History Important Questions

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important.”

Mind Important Language Economy Amount Tools Treats Increase Range Complexity Users Topics Vocabulary Utility Decrease

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”

Should Art Important Feelings Reality Artist Language Nature Art Is Painter Fine Arts Natural Environment Famous Artist Inspirational Artist Fine Artists Nature And Art

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Important Kids Asks Language Sports Quality Know How Generations Missing Figures Edges Skating This Generation Figure Skating Compulsory Skater

Author:Brian Boitano

“What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense that words are events, as real and important in themselves as wars and lovers... It is to the word, then, that the mind moves, and the word responds by taking on a physicality, even a sensuality, we have all been trained to ignore. Words have weight, and the distance between two can be a chasm filled with forces of association... What Clark is doing is genuinely new.”

Mind Two Important War Real Moving Language Force Interesting Events Lovers Happenings Weight Filled Distance Sensuality Usual Association Physicality Chasms

Author:Ron Silliman

“I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.”

Thinking Important Language Silence Communication Silence Is Emphasis

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Important Self Might Language Force Levels Inspire Conscious Nervous Worried Phrases Extras Pace Uncertain Positively Self Conscious

Author:Frances Hesselbein

“Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.”

Men Important Form Next Language Communication Kissing Exciting Command

Author:Oren Arnold

“Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.”

Littles Important Use Culture Language Wonder Shapes Who You Are Who I Am Important Words

Book:Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language

Source: Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language

“The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can't ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.”

“The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.”

Important Literature Lost Language Term Fascinating Transition Vocabulary Ambiguity Linguistics Connotation Syntax

Author:Marilyn Hacker

“The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.”

Writing Firsts Important Age Today Time Language Important Things Lays Clean Bones

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time when I had not yet grasped the significance of the fact that in my house English was a second language, or that I wore dresses while my brother wore pants, I knew--and I knew it was important to know--that Papa worked hard all day long.”

Knows Long Important Hard Facts Girl House Language Work Class Brother Members Dresses My Brother Significance Pants Working Class Papa

Book:The romance of American Communism

Source: The romance of American Communism

“Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as issues in philosophy of logic and of language. With respect to modality, I hold the exact opposite: important philosophical problems concerning language have been misconstrued as relating to the content of science and the nature of the world. This is not at all new, but is the traditional nominalist line.”

World Important Philosophy Problem Science Language Nature Logic Philosophical Observation Philosophy Of Science

Author:Bas van Fraassen

“If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.”

Ifs Knows Want Important Culture Language What's Important

Author:Joanne Harris

“...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.”

Knows Important Language Powerful Danger Weapons Red Tools Stones Hatred Foundation Important Things Most Powerful Warning Flags Diplomacy

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.”

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Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.”

Important Body Language Fiction Theory Periods Bridges Revelations Convenient Transitory Grappling

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.”

“What people say often precedes what they think. Some people sometimes say, "I have to hear myself talk before I know what I think." I think language sometimes, because it opens new channels, it opens new doors, is enormously important.”

People Thinking Knows Important Sometimes Language Doors

Author:John Elkington

“I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages.”

Thinking Kind I Can Important Different Language Comfortable Important Things Storytelling All Kinds Chinese Crew Norwegians Bulgarians

Author:Isabel Coixet

“But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.”

World Important Spirit Language Peace Liberty Taken Subjects Taught Gender Editors Passages Editing Cousin Making Peace

Author:Norman Cousins

“Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.”

Important Culture Language Chance Love Is Powerful Successful Notion Being Successful Most Powerful Power Of Love Important Words Culture And Language

Author:Bill Walton

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