Attention Quote by Constance Hale Download Open image “Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.” — Constance Hale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Choices Decision making Deserve Giving Intense Language Luster Our words Sentences Word choice
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our words are very powerful, always make sure that you use the right words, which encourages people instead of discouraging. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“among a soft folk obsessed with words, choosing the right word is nearly as important as doing the right thing.” The” — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image