{"id":1789,"date":"2009-03-03T16:24:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janice-campbell.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-03-03T16:24:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T23:24:06","slug":"words-words-words-celebrating-words-matter-week-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/words-words-words-celebrating-words-matter-week-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Words, Words, Words- Celebrating Words Matter Week 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Association of Independent Writers and Editors<\/a> has issued the following challenge:<\/p>\n

We believe that words matter. Do you? <\/strong><\/p>\n

We invite bloggers everywhere to\u00a0 write<\/strong> on the idea that \u201cwords matter.\u201d Once you post, please sign up<\/strong> in the Mr. Linky in this post<\/a> and use the \u201cShare<\/strong>\u201d button to add the post to your favorite networks, so that others will be able to easily find the various posts. You\u2019re welcome to leave a comment as well. Words matter!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read more about the event at the Words Matter Week page.<\/a><\/p>\n

I decided to post a few word-centered quotes in response to the challenge. I hope you enjoy them!<\/p>\n

Words without thoughts never to heaven go. (William Shakespeare)<\/p>\n

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have the to be received in less than a century. (Coventry Patmore)<\/p>\n

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)<\/p>\n

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone. (Robert MacNeil)<\/p>\n

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. <\/span>(George Orwell)<\/p>\n

The true words leads; the untrue misleads. (Franz Kafka)<\/p>\n

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. (John 1:1 KJV)<\/p>\n

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. <\/span>(George Orwell)<\/p>\n

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)<\/p>\n

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. <\/span>(George Orwell)<\/p>\n

Hamlet: Words, words, words! <\/em>(William Shakespeare)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll add more over the coming week, so visit again!<\/p>\n

If you want to participate in the Words Matter Week free teleseminars, or receive the free Words Matter Week 2009 Yearbook<\/em>, visit the event page at NAIWE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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