Quotes About Clarity

if you didn't speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.

The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound.

The biggest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place.

Clear communication always leads to conflict, and the clearer the communication the faster we arrive at it. Most people sense this intuitively. When there is the potential for disagreement, they create a gap between how they feel versus what they say. If we see conflict as a negative force to be avoided, and most people do, then we tend to "murk" up the communication.

Confused communication and unity of purpose cannot live together.

George Bernard Shaw summed it up well when he observed that the biggest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place.

If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.

But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I feel about something until I write a story about it. I figure it out while I'm writing the story.

Do you see?" "Sort of," she said, and she frowned hard to make her head work better.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it.

If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

in the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They

in the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don't care about them or don't like them.

Walt was a dreamer, but one who pursued his goals with clarity and an almost ferocious intensity." JACK KINNEY DISNEY ANIMATOR

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. HELEN KELLER

There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

Mercy?" "Just a minute," I told Adam. "I'm in the middle of a revelation.

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?

I find it somewhat reassuring that I'm not the only one who feels like I should be running around shouting, "Where's the script? Where's the script? If only I had a script I'd know what the freak I'm supposed to be doing.