Vocabulary Quotes
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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.
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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.
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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.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.
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Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.
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I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
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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.
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One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
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What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.
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Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
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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.
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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.
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The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
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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.
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The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.
