Quotes about Expression
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention
— Barbara Kingsolver
If God speaks for the man who keeps quiet, then Violet Brown may be His instrument.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is character that communicates most eloquently...In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
— Stephen Covey
My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.
— Stephen Covey
Writing crystallizes thinking and distills meaning, and bridges the gap between the conscious and the unconscious.
— Stephen Covey
Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain.
— Stephen Covey
Nothing has a greater, longer lasting impression upon another person than the awareness that someone has transcended suffering, has transcended circumstance, and is embodying and expressing a value that inspires and ennobles and lifts life.
— Stephen Covey
In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb.
— Stephen Covey
Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose
— Stephen Covey