Norman Cousins Quotes

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

If you can talk, you can write.

I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.