Ability To Speak Quotes:

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

- Lowell Thomas

topic: Cutting, Men, Crowds, Ability To Speak

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

- George Lucas

source: Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Intelligent, Doe, Jinn, War Movie, Star Wars Movie

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

- Tim Ward

topic: Buddhist, Silence, Sage, Spanish And English, Spanish Language

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2010). “Imagination in Place”, p.13, Counterpoint

topic: Exactly Is, Speak, Ability, Ability To Speak

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

- Hans Hofmann

source: 1967 Search for the Real.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Mean, Software Design, Life And Living

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

- Samuel Ullman

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Time, Spiritual Maturity, Spiritual Transformation

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

- Edmund Muskie

source: Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.73, Changemakers Books

topic: Communication, Silence, Speak, Spanish And English, Spanish Language

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Shortcuts, Speak, Distinction, Ability To Speak

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

- David Mamet

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Television, Evening, Language, Ability To Speak

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

- R. Kent Hughes

topic: Men, Thinking, Tests, Ability To Speak

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

- Bill Viola

topic: Art, Self, Long, Ability To Speak

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Learning, Matter, Speak, Ability To Speak

Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.

- Shinichi Suzuki

topic: Mother, Children, Musical, Developing, Musical Talent

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

- David Puttnam

source: "A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

topic: Art, Struggle, People, Ability To Speak, Popular Culture

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Heart, Touching, Mind, Ability To Speak

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.

- Osamu Dazai

topic: Agony, Optimism, Roles, Ability To Speak

President Obama said that if he could have any superpower, he'd want the ability to speak any language. That's so everyone in the world could tell him he picked one of the lamest possible superpowers.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: President, World, Want, Ability To Speak

I think there was a lot of working out the arc of how Manny [Daniel Radcliffe] talks. Scene to scene [in the Swiss army Man], if I would start talking a little too well, they would come in and say like, "Hey, you need to [dial back] your ability to speak" - things like that.

- Paul Dano

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Army, Men, Thinking, Ability To Speak

God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.

- Manuel II Palaiologos

topic: Ability To Speak

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the throat and mouth. Then the first criterion for language that I had learned as a student—it is spoken and heard—was wrong; and, more important, language did not depend on our ability to speak and hear but must be a more abstract capacity of the brain. It was the brain that had language, and if that capacity was blocked in one channel, it would emerge through another.

- Harlan Lane

topic: Hands, Brain, Important, Ability To Speak

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth.

- Joan Acocella

topic: Art, Dancing, Done, Ability To Speak

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

- Daniel Yergin

topic: Past, Important, Environmental, Native Language, English Speaking

So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.

- Michael Emerson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Christian, Stress, Moving, Pentecost, Multiracial

This is I think a dramatic point for conservatives. They are waking up to the fact that this guy, that Donald Trump has an ability to speak to people who they thought were theirs ideologically, people who they thought were a part of their team.

- Ben Domenech

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Team, Thinking, People, Ability To Speak

While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet.

- Mark Zuckerberg

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Believe, Practice, Giving, Ability To Speak

I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.

- Susan Schneider

topic: Song, Stupid, Skills, New Skills, Ability To Speak

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

- Ana Monnar

topic: Forgiveness, Heart, Compassion, Speak From The Heart, Ability To Speak

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Mastery, Levels, May, Ability To Speak

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Wife, Three, Verbs, Ability To Speak

Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.

- Stephen Young

source: Stephen Young (2006). “Micromessaging”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Dog, Mean, Thinking, Communicating With Others, Ability To Speak

Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

topic: Ignorance, Hair, Careers, Muslim Women, Remote Control