Quotes About Expression

She insulted conservatives and cowards every time she opened her mouth

In framing silence as an unethical choice, Dalio is taking a more extreme stance than I have adopted. But it's worth reflecting on this idea, which to me implies that you owe your colleagues the expression of your opinion or ideas; in a sense, those ideas belong to the collective enterprise, and you therefore don't have the right to hoard them.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, says of his work with other jazz musicians: "There are always tensions that come up. Part of working is dealing with tensions. If there's no tension, then you're not serious about what you're doing.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her wrist.

She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist.

The throat is a road.

There should be no shame in music.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

The backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

Well, you know, I'm passionate about that. I just feel that we need to help children from the earliest time to realize that there are ways that they can express how they feel, ways that aren't hurtful.

When our children were old enough to communicate, I would try to talk them out of their negative feelings—or convince them there was no foundation for them. But what I found out is that suppressing feelings has the same fate as trying to suppress a beachball in the ocean—they both come out sideways.

Just as he heralded the importance of expressing other kinds of emotions, Fred felt it essential to give others permission to grieve over the losses in their lives. He learned that lesson himself when he was six years old.

A concept Fred likely learned in his graduate studies in child development, sublimation is the process by which socially unacceptable behaviors are channeled—sublimated—into more socially acceptable ways.

Later he would counsel parents to allow their children to act out their feelings through puppets, as a way to bring some distance between the children and their difficult emotions.

They will do their best to invalidate your story. If that doesn't work, they will tell you not to tell your story.

Shit-damn, fuck-a-damn, fuck-a-damn-damn, some motherfucker just fucked my man, I'll fuck another fucker better than the other fucker, shit-damn, fuck-a-damn, fuck-a-damn!

He highly approved of the bare-legged, I'm-not-wearing-any-underwear-under-your-Oxford look on a girl.

I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....

I love you. I want to shout it sometimes. I know you worry about our letters and texts getting read--shades of WWII, haunting us still, I guess, and I'm well aware that nothing's safe on the internet. I worry too. You need to know that when I say it, when I ask you to say it, it's because my lungs feel full of dark water, and seeing it or writing it lets me breathe.

So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face. "He claims to be ac/dc," he said, watching her face light up completely.

You don't look gay," Joey said suspiciously. Will blinked. Well, that was new. "Maybe I'm just really, really happy inside," Will responded with a bright smile.

That's the definition of bisexual, Casey—pretty girls and pretty boys, it's like an all-you-can-fuck buffet!

The reason we need words to define our hearts is that our hearts are lonely, vulnerable, bare and beating things, and sometimes, they do not always know truth unless they hear it.