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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
When you grind & work hard, you don't ever have to tell anyone what you're up to, the results will speak much louder than anything else.
I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.
We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.
My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.
Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.
We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!
One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?
Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.
Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�
Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
Women today should have the same rights as men. And all citizens should have the right to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment.
When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.
You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.
It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.
The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.
When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.
Don’t be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You’ll never find peace in that. (Acheron)
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
I got to speak to Missy Elliott on the phone and she was like, 'I see you and just keep doing your thing,' and to hear that was incredible.
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
[Hillary Clinton chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.]It speaks of the sexism and the misogyny in this election [2016].
I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God