Angie Martinez

If you are a woman with this full life who is incredibly ambitious like I am, you have to find somebody who is into it, respects it, encourages it, and celebrates it because he loves that about you. Otherwise, you're going to feel like you're muting yourself.

American Musician

Banks

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

Maya Angelou

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

American Poet

Maria Montessori

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

Italian Educator

Michael Emerson

I'd really like to play a character who's inarticulate. I always play people with language. It would be good to play a mute or a fool or a saint.

American Actor

Jennifer Palmieri

I think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.

American Public Servant

Bill Irwin

It's shocking to think of the universe now without Robin Williams' energy, even muted.

American Entertainer

Kate Millett

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

American Activist

Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

English Poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Philosopher

Mute can imply a condition or choice but doesn't define someone's intelligence or abilities.

Beyond Disability

Using 'mute' suggests the person cannot speak, not that they're simply silent.

Not Silence By Choice

Be respectful, 'mute' describes a condition. Use person-first language when possible.

Sensitive Descriptions

In music, a mute adjusts volume and tone, not just for silencing.

Specific Sound Control

Different instruments use differently shaped mutes for desired effects.

Varied Instrument Use

Muting in virtual meetings shows consideration by reducing background noise.

Polite Participation

Use 'mute' to stay focused by blocking unwanted sounds from devices.

Avoid Distractions

Describing someone as mute can imply they're hiding or controlling their feelings.

Concealing Emotion

Often used in literature to depict a character's intense emotions or shock.

Literary Device

 treat speech like an intruder that would make fool of me in a room filled with people salad silence stays a sit-in in my mouth by age four my parents did not call it mute they called it shy called me a wind of a boy a breeze that would pick up conversation eventually that my

Using poetry as a way to...

 in my late 20s, and despite being a pathologically shy virtual mute with low self-esteem who'd never held a microphone before, I knew as soon as I walked and stood in front of the audience, I knew, before I'd even landed my first joke, I knew that I really liked stand-up,

Three ideas. Three...

 Sometimes I wish I had the eyes of a child. And by that I mean, I wish I could look at the world in the same as I did when I was a small boy. I think there is a danger, as we get older, that our curiosity becomes slightly muted or dulled by familiarity.

Mind-blowing, magnified...

 Your personality appears to vanish into a heavy fog and all of your emotions and desires are constricted, stifled and muted within you. For me, the worst was the feeling of utter powerlessness. I simply existed. It's a very dark place to find yourself

How My Mind Came Back to...

 that gives meaning to architecture. And, of course, expressive spaces are not mute. Expressive spaces are not spaces that simply confirm what we already know. Expressive spaces may disturb us. And I think that's also part of life.

Daniel Libeskind's 17...

 because sounds from the outside world have to travel through the mother's abdominal tissue and through the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus the voices fetuses here starting around the fourth month of gestation are muted

What we learn before...

 They can hit the pause button. They can rewind the professor. Heck, they can even mute the professor. So this form of self-pacing can be very helpful to learning. The third idea that we have is instant feedback.

Anant Agarwal: Why...

 from and indulge even statues of monkeys get trays of colorful food and a bottle of water the sponsor of all this monkey business mr. young mute knows how to make an entrance

Lopburi Monkey Festival...

 I have been tempted at every step of my career, tempted personally and tempted by coaching of others, to mute who I am in the world. I'm a woman of super strong opinions,

How to build (and...

 here in dorset hundreds of mute swans gather each year to breed