Effort Quote by Theodore Zeldin

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

— Margaret Heffernan

Speaking can be a lot like exercise: The more time you spend getting ready, the more you mentally build the task into something larger…

— Lewis Howes

“Speaking activates a different part of the brain. If you’re trying to understand something, or increase your chance of remembering it later, say it…

— Eric Freeman

When we turn around and come face to face with our destiny, we discover that spoken words are not enough. I know so many…

— Anonymous

Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our…

— Paul Fry

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

— Oliver Sacks

Now that we have grown up and mastered our speaking skills,why does it get even harder for us to say what we really feel…

— Anonymous

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

— Catherine Deneuve

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can…

— John Dieterich

It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal…

— Susan Sontag

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of…

— John Cage

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action...

— Moshe Feldenkrais