Quotes About Clarity

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

The Internet gives the public a chance to see what the real deal is! There ain't no hiding.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

I'm not a confused person in real life. I'm very clear.

Like, if I'm assessing someone's game and they can't shoot, they can't shoot. And they know they can't shoot. It's not like I'm making fun of them. I just keep it real, man.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

Sometimes you don't realise what you've got, because it's right in front of you.

I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've been perceived to be.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.

I only understand realism.

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

I'm a realist.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.