Quotes About Clarity

I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry.

Everything I'm thinking in my head goes onto my face, so you can see right through me.

I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.

My life is an open book.

I love writing openings, and I think that can give me the key to the movie. So somehow, that can be the easiest part, to be honest.

Communication is number one, and we have to communicate honestly and openly with each other.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve the deployment of public funds.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.

We're very clear on 'black-ish' about how many opinions are voiced by Dre Johnson.

I form opinions quickly.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused. Why, the words are spelled differently, and mean quite different things. Everyone can see that.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

When I see a spade I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade!

I am always saying what I shouldn't say; in fact, I usually say what I really think--a great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.