Action Speak Louder Than Words

To say only lasts the moment is it said, to do lasts the lifetime after it has been done. Considering Benjamin Franklin’s aphorism: “Well done is better than well said.” actions do speak louder than words. To prove this, excerpts from six different literature works and a personal experience will have to lend its knowledge….

Introduction: In this experiment the experimenters tried to determine if this clich is true, if people do actually learn better through observation than through words. They taught different children in different ways, some by action, and some by words, in order to determine how they learn better. Hypothesis: I think that the tested children who…

Confucius said: “If your words are grand, you will find that it is difficult for your actions to measure up to them.” [14.21] This passage appears on page 14 in the text in the section on words and actions. The point that Confucius is trying to make here is that speaking in an exaggerated manner…

Fingers are used for so many things in our lives. They write our essays. They type our papers. They speak our words? Yes, apparently they do that too. Unfortunately, first grade Jason was struggling to acknowledge this last concept. There was no sense, according to him, in deriving meaning from actions, particularly ones involving fingers,…

In this passage from David Wallace’s Consider the Lobster. There are many deep thoughts ingrained within the passage. And the author himself discusses many of his actions with regards to what he is saying. Given this, he is not always recognized for being consistent – at points he will address a section stating something about…

We have all sat in a presentation at one time or another and struggled to keep our eyes open or quickly jumped out of daydreaming and wondered how much of the presentation we actually missed. It is sometimes hard to pay attention to people giving presentations and even harder to focus on what they are…