Quotes About Clarity

You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.

I'll be 100 percent honest, any time I've been given a promo, I've used three to five percent of it, which is usually what are the bullet points, what's the direction I'm going in, what points do I need to get across, what am I putting over, and that's it.

The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.

I don't want it to be so complicated - promoters, a business plan, none of that.

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for.

I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.

Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.

Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.

I am not a prophet.

Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

I know the pros and cons of being absolutely blunt.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.