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Quotes About Clarity

Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident
~ John Berger
You put something down and you don't know immediately what it is. It has always been like that. ...All you have to know is whether you're lying or whether you're telling the truth, you can't afford to make a mistake about that distinction any longer.
~ John Berger
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~ John Berger
Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little.
~ John Berryman
Often we judge ourselves by our intentions and everyone else by their actions. It is possible to intend one thing while communicating something totally different. Sometimes our true motives are cleverly hidden even from us.
~ John Bevere
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
~ John Bradshaw
When we let go of insisting that we are who we think we are and that the world should give us exactly and only what we want, all things shine forth.
~ John Brehm
To have a good idea, stop having a bad one. The trick was to inhibit the easy, obvious, but ineffective attempts, permitting a better solution
~ John Brockman
Information is a measure of uncertainty reduced.
~ John Brockman
that's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise.
~ John Brockman
where perspicacity is weakened,
~ John Brooks
Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.
~ John Burdett
Sometimes you linger days upon a word, a single, uncontaminated drop of sound; for days it trembles, liquid to the mind, then falls: mere denotation dimming the undertow of language.
~ John Burnside
Simplicity beats complexity
~ John C Bogle
It takes wisdom to know what we don't know
~ John C. Bogle
Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?
~ John C. Maxwell
Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.
~ John C. Maxwell
We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.
~ John C. Maxwell
I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being in any way in the way.
~ John Cage
I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.
~ John Cage
Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was there came to him like liquid into an empty glass. Many people taking such a walk would have their heads so full of other ideas that it would be a long time before they were capable of hearing or seeing. Most people are blinded by themselves.
~ John Cage
Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight vanishes so swiftly that he is plunged again into the darkness of night before he can take even a step-let alone be directed on the way by its help.
~ John Calvin
We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And
~ John Calvin
for when any one understands this Epistle, he has a passage opened to him to the understanding of the whole Scripture.
~ John Calvin