Vocabulary Quotes

• It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Problems
  • Acknowledge
  • Contribution

• Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Word
  • Dreamer
  • Remove

• I don't think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I listen to, that I ingest, is a lot different than what I put out. I'm always becoming obsessed with the next phase of my musical vocabulary.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Music
  • Move
  • Obsessed

• Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Languages
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar

• I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Literature
  • Arts
  • Vocabulary

• We all agreed that philosophically, it was not OK, and ethically, it wasn't OK. We're going to take the word 'divert' totally out of our vocabulary.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Word
  • Vocabulary
  • Divert

• Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Language
  • Rules
  • Agents

• Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

  

  Bergen Evans
  • Reflection
  • Established
  • Correlation

• The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Vocabulary

• Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

  

  Wilfred Funk
  • Success
  • Argument
  • Longer

• I’ve expanded my vocabulary.” I nudged him. “I’m preparing for college.” “How many new words a day?” “You know, a few. I like the old words better. They’re like old friends.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Vocabulary
  • Old Friends
  • Colleges

• Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Language
  • Notes
  • Vocabulary

• Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Fear
  • Part
  • Vocabulary

• One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Die
  • Names
  • Constant

• I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as much vocabulary as possible. It's kind of like writing. It's kind of like writing because the more you read, the more you hear people describe things. The more you soak in, as far as vocabulary, the more access you have in order to express yourself accurately and vividly.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Learning

• Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Idea
  • Vocabulary
  • Public Speaking

• Why was I worried? Because if, in everyday life, I was so embarrassed, so cautious, that I scarcely breathed, the diary produced in me a craving for truth. I thought that when one writes, it makes no sense to be contained, to censor oneself, and as a result I wrote mostly—maybe only—about what I would have preferred to be silent about, resorting among other things to a vocabulary that I would never have dared to use in speaking.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Truth
  • Worried
  • Embarrassed

• One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Reason
  • Voice

• The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Vocabulary
  • Self-Criticism
  • Cliché

• The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

  

  Judith Jamison
  • Suffering
  • Vocabulary

• We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Social
  • Term
  • Online

• The fact that the term fake news is now in the regular vocabulary of the American people is evidence enough Americans know the news is fake.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Fake
  • Vocabulary
  • American People

• Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Music
  • Vocabulary
  • Gather

• I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Simple
  • Language
  • Hardest

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