Top 1200 Language Development Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

It took a pretty drastic moment to shift my thinking towards visual arts. I got to a moment in my writing career when I wasn't trusting the language, I was really not trusting the written language, the English language. How do you work with a material that you don't have trust in? I had to step away from it and find another way of articulating and I had to do it without words.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.

Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.

America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.

My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.

Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

What I am doing is creating a language. A different American language.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.