Quotes About Clarity

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

If there is something I don't know and I suspect that I need clarification and so does the viewer, I just ask for it.

As an interviewer, I don't think you can dance around the subject. Certainly the interview subject knows if you are dancing, and the viewer knows that you are dancing. If it's a hard question, you just have to ask it.

When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

Talking points aren't going to help the viewers understand something better. They're about as useful as bumper sticker slogans.

When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the truth', 'cos you don't know any difference, so there's a real confidence in your way of thinking.

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

I have strong views, and I can't imagine not ever being honest about those views.

It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.

I have no problem with people challenging my views and my positions. I want to be clear that I'm not asking anybody to stop challenging me. But I will not accept being called an anti-Semite.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the public is entitled to know what the legal views of a Supreme Court candidate are.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Vigorous writing is concise.

I think it's important, however, that as we again talk about the importance of free speech we make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not America they are not who were they are not what we do and they will be prosecuted, so I want that message to be clear also.

I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

In March 2013, FinCEN issued guidance for virtual currency businesses - giving the industry some degree of clarity about how to be compliant on the federal level.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.