Quotes About Clarity

Accusations are useless.

For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body.

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

I'm looking forward to seeing more ICO projects provide increased clarity about the performance metrics expectations they plan to exhibit during their future adult lives in addition to the assumptive utility of that token they are selling.

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'

Why say 'utilize' when you can say 'use'?

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Every now and again, it doesn't hurt to utter some home truths as long as it is not personal, just purely professional.

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

Here's the problem: People have completely and utterly forgotten one thing when it comes to communication - intent.

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

It's important that the actor doesn't feel like they're working in a vacuum. If the actor is told, 'Oh, it's a secret; just play it this way or that way,' it's a bit patronising. I think you have to bring the actor into your thinking and explain things.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.