Top 100 Quotes About Expressing
#1. I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric.
Martha Wainwright
#2. In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision
the precious rays of light shining from the throne.
Ellen G. White
#3. If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
Susan Sontag
#5. Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
Jen Lancaster
#6. I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.
Maynard James Keenan
#7. Learning can cause social fracture. Your people start expressing themselves.
Richard Rodriguez
#9. Writing for nobody? Impossible. You fumble, you stop. I don't even take the trouble of expressing myself so that when I reread myself I can understand whatever it was I was trying to say. Gilles will figure it out, he'll work it through.
Felix Guattari
#10. By expressing our unique talents and using them to serve others, we will experience unlimited love, abundance, and true fulfillment in our lives.
Deepak Chopra
#11. I believe that God in every human-being, is expressing a divine idea, and a different in each.
Mathilde Fibiger
#12. I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.
Matt De La Pena
#13. Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.
Neale Donald Walsch
#14. For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his fantasies by expressing them. Instead, by some perverse logic of creation, the act of formal expressions may simply make the dredged-up material more readily available to him.
Al Alvarez
#15. Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. Go for that communion, that real communion with your soul, and the discipline of expressing that communion with others. That doesn't come from competition. That comes from being one with what you are doing.
Anna Deavere Smith
#16. A heart filled with emotions doesn't require rituals and venues for expressing true love.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#17. Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.
Robert Lyn Nelson
#18. This is the essence of worship: entering into God's presence and expressing God's worth, both because of who he is and because of what he has done.
Kevin Scott
#19. Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
Mary J. Blige
#20. In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation ... , I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.
Franklin Pierce
#21. The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.
Frances Hesselbein
#22. The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.
Dick Morris
#23. To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.
Bruce Lee
#24. There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now. My happiness is knowing this, my joy is expressing it, my bliss is experiencing it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#25. Expressing reverence for Reagan has been almost a requirement for Republican presidential candidates since 1988, but Mr. Walker has taken to it like an apostle to his creed.
Anonymous
#26. Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
Thomas Couture
#27. I know I am talking nonsense, but I'd rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.
Thomas Mann
#28. Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.
Joel Edgerton
#30. At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do.
It is all very simple.
Adyashanti
#31. I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, it's inherent in the act of expressing myself, as a woman who is deeply alienated from mainstream cinematic structures of seeing. I express myself and am instantly feminist.
Nina Menkes
#32. I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.
Evanescence
#33. Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
Eric Cantor
#34. Apologizing makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Expressing gratitude makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Maybe there's something to this vulnerability/strength connection, eh?
Danielle LaPorte
#35. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.
Oscar Arias
#36. Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.
Andrew Stanton
#37. As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.
Diane Keaton
#38. Late that night we were both still thinking about the events as they unfolded. He suggested a drive back to the water to bring some closure. As we stood in the water I felt so thankful to have been with a friend capable of hearing and expressing emotion.
Paula Heller Garland
#39. I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
Hampton Sides
#40. The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
Dara Horn
#41. I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.
Virginia Woolf
#42. Begin your day by saying "I AM". You will begin to believe that you have control of your life, freedom of expressing yourself with ease, and the clarity to recognize your own truth.
Steven Cuoco
#43. When one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.
Bruce Lee
#44. Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
Yasunari Kawabata
#45. An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
Martin Luther King Jr.
#46. I went through the same process when I sort of addressed in my practice cancer next, when I began all the veganism and the fasting and the purifications. Part of that was just gratitude, expressing gratitude, thank you, thank you.
Brad Willis
#47. Love is an action that does not depend on anyone else but the person expressing it.
Amy Bayliss
#48. A city is a kind of pattern-amplifying machine: its neighborhoods are a way of measuring and expressing the repeated behavior of larger collectivities - capturing information about group behavior, and sharing that information with the group.
Steven Johnson
#49. When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such a sorry way of expressing itself.
Adam Makos
#50. Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
Maajid Nawaz
#51. My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.
Stuart Wilde
#52. In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#53. I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.
Dee Snider
#54. When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.
Michel Hazanavicius
#55. Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially.
Anupam Kher
#56. God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
John Ortberg Jr.
#57. There are three ways in which we are honest. And those three ways will make up the bulk of this book. The three ways are 1) living based on our values (lifestyle); 2) becoming comfortable with our intentions (boldness); and 3) by expressing our sexuality freely (communication).
Mark Manson
#58. Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.
Sharon Salzberg
#59. The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#60. I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.
Richard Ashcroft
#61. Concise mode of expressing the same meaning is, that inseparable accidents are properties which are universal to the species, but not necessary to it. Thus, blackness is an attribute of a crow,
John Stuart Mill
#62. I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Eric Cantona
#63. The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
Asger Jorn
#64. Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.
James C. Collins
#65. Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except Do you have enough room in the toes?
Florence King
#66. I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.
Julian Ovenden
#67. If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.
Emeli Sande
#68. But it wasn't more honestly that would have saved me, I thought; it was more dishonesty. In my experience, honesty and expressing your feelings could lead to only one thing. Disaster.
Margaret Atwood
#69. After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
Timothy Leary
#70. I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.
Matt Bomer
#71. I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
Burt Lancaster
#72. I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
Queen Elizabeth II
#73. I chose silent resentment in favor of expressing my feelings, and that was a mistake.
Ellen Hopkins
#74. Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing safe. If you hesitate you are restraining your creativity. Some will appreciate your creative work and others will not. Just be free in expressing the creative you!
Alison Blackmore
#75. Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation ... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.
Anais Nin
#76. Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
Alicia Keys
#77. Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.
Yuvaraja Dhayanithi
#78. I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.
Marion Cotillard
#79. Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.
Charles Darwin
#80. The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.
Goswami Kriyananda
#81. When you do your best, you are expressing an attribute of God.
Harold Klemp
#82. I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
Adam Hicks
#83. Drawing is ... not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
Henri Matisse
#84. I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.
Tim Gunn
#85. You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.
Eckhart Tolle
#86. Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#87. Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.
Marisha Pessl
#88. This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.
Bede Griffiths
#89. Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.
Nadia Boulanger
#90. Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.
Colin R. Davis
#91. Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
Victor Hugo
#92. The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
Duke Ellington
#93. Mostly, we think that a self-expressive person is egotistical. That may be true but what about someone who refrains from expressing himself to protect his ego from bruised?
Assegid Habtewold
#94. The approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
Philip Yancey
#95. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.
Michel Foucault
#96. I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#97. Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
Ian McKellen
#98. Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.
Robert Henri
#99. We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
Libba Bray
#100. Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.
James Levine
