Quotes About Clarity

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

At the end of the day, you want a straightforward, simple system which everyone understands. If you can get clarity and simplicity in any process, it's better for everybody.

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands.

We're in a war with ISIS and we need a leader who understands exactly what that means.

I'm a big believer in making sure that action is not confusing and the audience understands what the characters are up to and what they're doing.

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.