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The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. — Muriel Rukeyser
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what… — Aaron Siskind
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of… — Constance Hale
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun… — Robert Farrar Capon
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances… — Peter Greenaway
I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. — Roscoe Mitchell
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary… — Aldous Huxley
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future. — Jim Rohn
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the… — Paul Valery
It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price… — Malcolm X
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character. — Sara Sheridan
Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. — Robin Sharma
You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary. — Jack Canfield
I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. It’s not to… — Delphine de Vigan
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over… — Diane Ackerman
The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary. — Robert Cheeke
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its… — Henry Beston
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was.… — Patrick Warburton
We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.'… — Studs Terkel
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of… — Charles Frazier
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who… — Diane Ackerman
Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and… — Antonya Nelson
Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over. — Mary Lou Retton

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