Ephraim Mirvis Quotes

Language is powerful. Words matter.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

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

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

Words have a lot of power.

Words are powerful.

A word after a word after a word is power.

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

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I don't believe in the power of words.

Words are important. They do matter.

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

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.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

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

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Words have the power to change us.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.