skillful expression Quotes

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

Good writing comes from good talent.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful way that you can. It's not just blurting stuff out and having verbal diarrhea.