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Quotes About Clarity

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.
~ Silver RavenWolf
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Good writing is like a windowpane.
~ George Orwell
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
~ Edward Tufte
A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
~ Moses ibn Ezra
In good writing, words become one with things.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
~ E. B. White
All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.
~ Thomas Leonard
In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
~ Mike Markkula
I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.
~ William Manchester
Good writers are visible just behind their words.
~ William Zinsser
I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
~ Oscar Levant
Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
~ Hugh Nibley
A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.
~ Simon Sinek
An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.
~ Richard Briers
Only good questions deserve good answers.
~ Oscar Wilde
When I'm decisive, I feel I do a good job.
~ Chad Pennington
Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.
~ Ron Livingston
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
~ Max Beerbohm
Good writing is about telling the truth.
~ Anne Lamott
Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.
~ Lois Lowry