Quotes About Clarity

A mind too active is no mind at all.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them…. If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.

I do not think partisanship should ever obscure the truth.

They spoke politely and with deference to the adults, whereas it went against my nature not to speak plainly. To many people speaking plainly is the same as speaking rudely. Whereas to me, if one was direct, it saved time and misunderstanding.

The scribe was a strict teacher and he did not accept anything less than perfect... Like a mother sensing the baby quickening within her, suddenly, to me, the letters were no longer hostile and unwieldly. I had command of them, with my head and with my hand... The words struck, as clear and as pure as a bell peal on a winter morning.

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!

Successful low-hanging fruit results will be clear, compelling, and, potentially, paradigm shifting.

Clarity is the ability of the process to be communicated and understood by the people.

To be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some churches are not clear on a ministry process because they do not have one. Others have one, but it is too complex. It is too complicated, too long, or too confusing. The process is ineffective because it cannot be understood. Without understanding, commitment wanes. Understanding always precedes commitment.

I simply know that if something is important to the church, it really cannot be over-communicated.

El enfoque es el compromiso a abandonar todo to que queda ficera del proceso ministerial simple. El enfoque con frecuencia implica decir "no>>. El enfoque exige que se diga > a todo lo demas.

Las Iglesias simples abandonan todo lo que esta fuera del proceso simple porque amenaza con robar la atencion y la energia de lo que ha sido determinado como necesario. Los eventos, las actividades y los programas fuera del proceso hacen que las personas avancen en multiples direcciones. La falta de enfoque conduce a la dispersion.

la complejidad diluye to potential de producir un impacto».

Sin definicion, se da lugar a la ambiguedad. La mayoria de las iglesias es ambigua en cuanto a su proceso ministerial, o porque no tienen uno o porque esta apenas definido. Y donde existe la ambiguedad, con frecuencia hay confusion.

Los lideres deben discutir el proceso con regularidad. Si el corazon de los lideres no late con pasion por eso, la gente no lo tomara en cuenta. Si el piano ministerial es confuso Para los lideres, ni siquiera lo consideraran los miembros de la congregacion.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.

Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. —C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture How

Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.