Edward R. Murrow Quotes

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

Since I learned English, I've become a motormouth!

I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.

When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

When I first came to this country I could not speak English. Now I get paid to write it.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English, and they realize how far I have been able to go.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

I'd like to continue my education. The physical stuff's great and I think it's great as an actor because you get to live a lot of little lives, but learning more about the world, learning another language, continuing with my Spanish that's important.

I learned English in one month. I told myself I should listen. In the next month I could talk to everyone. I was so happy because I could do one thing...I could talk.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.

I don't have a problem expressing myself.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.

Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.