Quotes About Clarity

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

Communication is the universal solvent.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.