Quotes by S. I. Hayakawa

S. I. Hayakawa

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

Advertising

Occupation

Symbols

Agreement is brought about by changing people’s minds – other people’s.

Agreement

Mind

People

America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.

America

Color

Race

Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

Animal

Clothes

Struggle

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

Bilingualism

Country

Individual

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people’s linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Definitions

Noise

People

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

Keys

Opportunity

Participation

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

Common

Language

People

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

Civilization

Men

Waiting

Few people…have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people’s speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

Ideas

Opposites

Views

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Ability

Advertising

Age

Aging

Agreement

America

Animal

Arguing

Believe

Bilingualism

Book

Century

Chance

Character

Children

Civilization

Clothes

Color

Common

Community

Country

Creativity

Culture

Death

Definitions

Differences

Different

Dirty

Drama

Dream

Education

Employment

Failure

Feet

Finding Yourself

Funny

Giving

Golf

Grandfather

Groups

Guy

Ideas

Identity

Important

Individual

Inspirational

Jungle

Keys

Land

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Quotes by S. I. Hayakawa

S. I. Hayakawa

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

Agreement is brought about by changing people’s minds – other people’s.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people’s linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

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