This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ...
Quotes about fluency (15 Quotes)
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the picturesque looseness of their carriage -- their deathless attachment to freedom -- their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean -- the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states -- the fierceness of their roused resentment -- their curiosity and welcome of novelty -- their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy -- their susceptibility to a slight -- the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors -- the fluency of their speech -- their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul -- their good temper and open-handedness -- the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him -- these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.
Terry's a thoughtful, intelligent man and he did not take his media imperialist roots to Sunnyvale. And that's what got him on the road to fluency, which he's mastered. That's some feat for an old-media dog, speaking as one who could be similarly described.
The fluency of our English-as-a-second-language students has gone up. The kids can't wait to read. Their eyes light up when their partners come in.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Speech includes fluency, articulation, and voice. Language involves how people organize their thoughts and ideas to express themselves and how they understand spoken words and messages. Feeding and swallowing treatment addresses the needs of individuals who were born with or have developed feeding and swallowing problems typically due to neurological conditions.
Student assessment results suggest that collectively, Reading First schools have done an outstanding job developing students word recognition and fluency abilities. Good progress has been made in vocabulary and comprehension as well, but it is in these two areas that the most work remains to be done.
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
I really wanted to go abroad to South Korea, the country of my heritage, in order to increase my fluency in the language and really become immersed in the culture, ... This experience would be perfect, I thought to myself, and I applied.
It will take time to gel, of course, but I'm confident our fluency will be back soon and the results will follow.
This is our first game of the year as a new, young side. It takes a little bit to get going, for combinations to get moving. We need a bit more fluency, but 52 points - it's a good result for us.
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.