Leo Rosten Quotes

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

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

A word after a word after a word is power.

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 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.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

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.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

I don't believe in the power of words.

Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.

Words are powerful.

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

Words have the power to change us.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

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.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

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

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.