Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.
I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?
