Quotes About Clarity

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I'd cut my time with Clint in half. I wouldn't say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I'd found a way - I'd understood who he was, where it would end - five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

I'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don't understand it.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in. What will undoubtedly happen is I'll write one too many. The important thing is to recognize when you've written too many and stop there.

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.