Eloquence Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Fluency avoids hard thoughts.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eloquence Fluency Hard
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image