Intentional Speech Quotes

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Why do we say 'Have a great weekend?' That's just a spell. You're just going - I have no control over your weekend. But words matter. They change our interior world. Have a great weekend.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

One thing as a leader - you don't say something to say something. When you actually see something and need to talk to a guy, that's when you say it. It will come naturally.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character. It must advance plot. During dialogue, the characters confront one another. The confrontation is in itself an occasion. Each one of these occasions, throughout the novel, is unique.

Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.

Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.

I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.