Quotes About Clarity

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

I think the company that has the clearest set of values is Amazon. That company knows what it is. It may be that it's not your cup of tea, but every single person at that company knows what the Amazon values are.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I said something, the kids understood exactly what I meant and what I wanted.

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

I just get this reputation of being a bad teammate, but no one would come in and tell me why.

I know what I'm about. My teammates know, my family knows, everything else, I can't worry about.

Over the years, I've had teammates who decided to hang it up and I would ask them how they knew when it was time to walk away. The answer was almost always the same: You just know.

Because he's wonderful and sensitive and funny. Because we bring out the best in each other and are better people because of our love. Because when we're together, I feel like I understand my place in the world.

Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole.

WHAT DOES SALMON HAVE TO DO with the Warriors?" I asked. Sydney shot me a wry look. "Psalms, not salmon.

Had the generals seen the battlefield clearly, reclaiming Schmidt would have been the least of their concerns.

Congress also seemed to be moving toward a proclamation of independence. That would give Washington a clear strategic objective, an American definition of victory: formal separation from Britain and the creation of a new nation. Such clarity in war was invaluable. If the country was asked to sacrifice, the purpose would now be evident. If men were asked to die, they would know why.