I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people.
And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.
If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.
In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.
May those who enjoy the faithful ministry of the Word feel exceedingly thankful for it. There are few blessings on Earth greater for a believer; and yet the Lord is frequently obliged to teach us the value of this blessing by depriving us of it for a...
Secret 7591.42.21. Avoiding weasel words in your intelligence analysis isn't easy when your intelligence analysis is about weasels.
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.
It called to him, a sweet heady beacon of femininity, fertility, and fuckability. His three favorite f-words.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.
My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.
In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.
Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
