There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a wo...man standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A broad consensus exists that Lincoln was more eloquent than Davis in expressing war aims, more successful in communicating with t...he people, more skillful as a political leader in keeping factions working together for the war effort, better able to endure criticism and work with his critics to achieve a common goal. Lincoln was flexible, pragmatic, with a sense of humor to smooth relationships and help him survive the stress of his job; Davis was austere, rigid, humorless, with the type of personality that readily made enemies. Lincoln had a strong physical constitution; Davis suffered ill health and was frequently prostrated with illness. Lincoln picked good administrative subordinates (with some exceptions) and knew how to delegate authority to them; Davis went through five secretaries of war in four years; he spent a great deal of time and energy on petty administrative details that he should have left to subordinates. A disputatious man, Davis sometimes seemed to prefer winning an argument to winning the war; Lincoln was happy to lose an argument if it would help him win the war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our good schools today are much better than the best schools of yesterday. When I was your age and a pupil in school, our teachers... were our enemies. Can any thing ... be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relator or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether... be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol, which both of us connect with the common sentiment or idea; and thus by communicating an impulse he can move the will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, an...d so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mothers who have little sense of their own minds and voices are unable to imagine such capacities in their children. Not being ful...ly aware of the power of words for communicating meaning, they expect their children to know what is on their minds without the benefit of words. These parents do not tell their children what they mean by "good" much less why. Nor do they ask the children to explain themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These people figured video was the Lord's preferred means of communicating, the screen itself a kind of perpetually burning bush. ..."He's in the de-tails," Sublett had said once. "You gotta watch for Him close."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair ...part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish to know only to talk. Thus we would not take a sea voyage--if we were never to s...peak of it--for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever communicating it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist and ...the broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »