And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.” — Benny Lewis 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
“verbal fluency and sociability are the two most important predictors of success, according to a Stanford Business School study.” — Susan Cain 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
“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
“Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating… — Stanley Fish 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have… — Albert Watson Copy Share Image
The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten how different my language looks on paper, that its letters have so little resemblance to how they actually sound.… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks--… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Fluency CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. *author’s note – This is an amazingly blunt statement as well as an… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
