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“In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, it's simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results.”

Mind Heart Moments Use Language Challenges Simple Results Powerful Communication Essentials Surface Heat Elegant Nonviolent Communication Heat Of The Moment

Author:Vicki Robin

“In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.”

Mind May Different States Reality Language Degrees Buddhist Planes State Of Mind Eastern Cosmology

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.”

Thinking Mind Long Form Song Speak Language Pieces

Author:Steve Hackett

“I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.”

Mind Reason Speak Language Basketball Crosses Court Playing Basketball Basketball Court

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement.”

“Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.”

Ifs Mind Shows Would Be Language Horror Tools Concealing

Author:George Carlin

“Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.”

Mind Law Language Minutes Products Various Tongue Recognition Association Obscure Scholarship Habitual Compact Summary Contending

Book:The Works of Walter Pater

Source: The Works of Walter Pater

“UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”

Thinking Mind Humans May Language Particular Universal Determined Devices Faculty Yield Human Mind Interaction Components Grammar Innate Acquisition Characterization Language Acquisition

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.”

Mind Language Century Stage Criticism Letters Setting Settings Making Up Literary Criticism

Author:Fannie Hurst

“But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature.”

Knows Writing Mind Art Use Form Language Term Numbers Know How Senses Civilized Vulgar Abstraction Mistress Sympathetic Refined Detached Corresponding Art Of Writing

Author:Giambattista Vico

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.”

Mind Made Language Conversation Extraordinary Sentences Excellent Thrive Makers Appetite Adequate Cafes

Book:Approaching Eye Level

Source: Approaching Eye Level

“It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.”

Men Mind Mean Two Ideas Different Language Differences Produce Variety Characteristics Inadequate Different Minds

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.”

Mind Language Praise Symbols Substitutes Recollection

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume

“The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.”

Mind Wells Real Jobs Language Emotion Clean Association Drag Filthy Obscenity Real Jobs

Book:Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

“Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Language Doubt Products Mysterious Human Mind

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.”

Thinking Mind Language Emotion Consciousness Conscious Direct Bridges Unconscious Cables Metaphorical

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.”

Thinking Way Mind Stories Language Process Water Fishes Swim

Book:Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

“My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to finish their course, learn as many languages as possible, go to movies, read books visit museums, broaden your mind.”

Ifs Mind Book Courses Language Advice Fields Students Photographer Photograph Museums

Author:Martine Franck

“The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.”

Feels Mind Problem Language Race Company Teaching Approach Limitation Scholar Great Work Standpoint Great Minds

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

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