The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I knew I was developing fluency in Spanish language when I started thinking in Spanish!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“There was skill and fluency in the way he kissed her, for this was a language, too. Her body was learning it” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“When your stutter is chronic, you wonder what magic fluent people use that makes them sound so fluent.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“don’t know about you, but my English isn’t perfect. I hesitate when I’m nervous, I forget precisely the right word every now… — Benny Lewis Copy Share Image
“Cognitive fluency refers to our brains’ tendency to accept messages that are easy to understand and effortlessly fit into existing schemata (referring… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.” — 2000 National Reading Panel Copy Share Image
Digital fluency... is literally your ability to do things like banking online, to connect with people, to use a device and the… — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the...… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
“Good readers may struggle with a difficult text, but struggle is not the goal of reading. The goal is fluency. Meaning flows… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“verbal fluency and sociability are the two most important predictors of success, according to a Stanford Business School study.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored,… — David Antin Copy Share Image
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