"If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning."

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Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

Kenneth Lee Pike

#Language Quotes #Behavior Quotes

“People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.”
“in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.”

Source : Steve Reich (2002). “Writings on Music, 1965-2000”, p.53, Oxford University Press
“We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.”
“The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.”
“One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.”
“Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."”
“I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.”

Source : "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview With Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.
“What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.”

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