Quotes About Being Articulate

#1. Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

Noah Baumbach

#2. Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right - creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.

Thomas Sowell

#3. We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with the non-verbal ability of remembering what they are like, or of appreciating them without being able to say why

Kent Bach

#4. I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

Hilarie Burton

#5. being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.

Mark Nepo

#6. Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.

Tony Kushner

#7. It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.

Paul Ford

#8. For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Alan Watts

#9. When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

Louis C.K.

#10. I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

Frank Sinatra

#11. It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

John Dewey

#12. But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.

Randy West

#13. This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

John Gimlette

#14. I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.

Ann Beattie

#15. A child being able to clearly and confidently articulate thoughts, ideals, and opinions have better self-esteem and they learn to deal with complex problems more effectively.

Hannah Raybans

#16. If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.

Hugh MacLeod

#17. Alone, I was strident and articulate in a way I could never be when I faced him. His presence made me shrink, and though it irritated me, I also looked forward to that sensation of being dwarfed, couldn't wait to sit beside him in his office again.

Siri Hustvedt

#18. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

Carla Gugino

#20. Gear is the least important part of the equation. Having a vision and being able to articulate an idea visually are much more important.

Paul Nicklen

#21. People enjoy being able to articulate their interests and define themselves by selectively compiling and resharing content created by others

Tom Standage

#22. Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

J.D. Greear

#23. A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton ...

George Bernard Shaw

#24. [I'm] a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

Usher

#25. A rather honored guest of the Cuban government, so I wouldn't experience the problems. I think it would take a black Cuban to really articulate this because I'm being treated in a very generous way.

Huey Newton

#26. There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.

Colm Keaveney

#27. I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

James Herbert

#28. It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.

Claire Danes

#29. My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

Kevin Gates

#30. For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.

Larry Fitzgerald

#31. To articulate who I hope will pick up this book and take a read: I imagine it being those who find themselves living in the tension between intellectual pursuit and passionate action. Neither

Bruce Reyes-Chow

#32. When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

Camryn Manheim

#33. There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Tracy Chapman