Top 1200 Speaking My Mind Quotes & Sayings

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

You might be thinking that some people are just naturally good at speaking up, and others just aren't - game over. Not true. Speaking up is a skill that you have to learn like any other, whether it's speaking Spanish or doing calculus or changing a tire.

I've always been a guy who didn't mind speaking to reporters.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.

The TED talk I gave, that gave me another character I didn't know about. I'm not saying the mind of a hero, but a kind of responsibility. Every word I'm speaking, it's not from myself. I'm speaking for and representing the people of communist North Korea.

If I do get offended, you'll probably know about it because I'm very honest and I don't hold back when it comes to speaking my mind.

I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard.

Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

It's part of my challenge as an actor, not only speaking English but speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent.

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it.

My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books.

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.

Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.

It's just that the characters are speaking their mind. As opposed to it just being an expression, they're actually saying what's on their mind, and that's something that Tennessee Williams is really famous for. Shakespeare does that and Tennessee Williams does that. You crave that, when you're an actor, for sure.

I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.

I'm not one to shy away from speaking my mind.

If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.

I travel all over the United States basically in evangelism, speaking in churches, speaking in prisons, speaking in rehab centers wherever I can basically sharing my story of redemption and the turnaround in my life.

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

For me, speaking my mind is a big part of my life, and I encourage other people to do that as well.

There is that whole realization that I'm not just speaking to Filipinos anymore: I'm speaking to a global audience.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

When I have to switch back and forth, it's not hard to go from the American accent to speaking Spanish, but then speaking Spanish and going back into the American accent is hard. I practice it so much. I talk to myself in the mirror all the time. It's like speaking multiple languages.

When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts.

However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

I've always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking and doing accents and things like that.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.

Castilian Spanish-speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian-speaking Spain, Galician-speaking Spain and Basque-speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship.

If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.

Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

I can fill a church speaking on Revelation and empty it speaking on Romans.