Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

These [cruise] missiles are accurate, but they are only as useful as their targeting is precise.

Clarity of communication is important.

I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.

I'm accurate and I can land on anyone's chin.

I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further.

Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.

John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

At an early age my dad - probably because he's a journalist - said: "Just have something to say. Don't just blather. Always have one line in your mind." So, that was always my thing whenever I met someone when I was younger, if ever I got to meet a real celebrity.

To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.