Quotes About Clarity

He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn't think. Or Maybe it was the other way round: where there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, 'When I grow up, I am going to be happy.

Hindsight is an exact science.

I always tell the truth when I'm drunk. In vino vomitas.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Much of a language's complexity is not necessarily for effective communication.

The German starts by claiming: 'German is off course ze best language. It is ze language off logik and philosophy, and can commuicate viz great clarity and precision even ze most complex ideas.' 'Boeff,' shrugs the Frenchman, 'but French, French, it ees ze language of lurve! In French, we can convey all ze subtletees of romance weez elegance and flair.

Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing.

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

The unattended mind lives with unending wants, while the awakened mind understands that its own watchfulness is the fullness it seeks.

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And it is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

When you didn't say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.

The world didn't allow you clean, clear judgments very often, it seemed to Daiyan. He envied those who thought otherwise, who lived otherwise.

durent se faire expliquer la situation en un langage qu'ils pouvaient comprendre. Il était possible, bien sûr, de simplement leur donner des ordres sans rien expliquer, mais Shirvan régnait depuis longtemps et savait que la plupart des gens sont plus efficaces quand ils saisissent eux-mêmes de quoi il s'agit. Il

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

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The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself...fly under your own radar. Let the anti-aircraft guns discharge their ammunition into the plaid sky. Steal home, undetected even by yourself. Whatever you do, in this state, don't think.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

Without the Oxford comma, you can give people the wrong idea. Famously, the London Times newspaper once ran a brief description of a television documentary featuring Peter Ustinov, promising: Highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector.

If an abbreviation with a full stop comes at the end of a sentence, you don't need to add another full stop: He really loves his asides, anecdotes, incidental stories, etc. Bless.

But language is power. Words do make a difference. They can reinforce stereotypes, cause offense, undermine, hurt, and humiliate. You don't have to wrap everything you say in cotton wool, but you should choose your words carefully. Good communication is about courtesy and kindness as well as clarity and getting your message across.

Las potencialidades de México están a la vista. Pero la falta de claridad con que actuamos los mexicanos frente a nuestras potencialidades desespera a propios y extraños.

I lose the thread

One must have travelled a great deal to discover the obvious. One must have thoroughly rubbed and exhausted one's own eyes to get rid of the thousands of scales we start with...There are poets who have strived to do this...in quest of what I call the second innocence, the one that comes after knowing, the one that no longer knows, the one that knows how not to know.