Jesse Williams Quotes

Language cares.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

You speak to be understood, right? And you're understood so you can be felt. And you're felt so you can get what you want.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Good dialogue is very important.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

A word after a word after a word is power.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Communication is important.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.