Quotes About Clarity

There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

When things start to feel whacky I'll either walk in the woods or ride or sit. I'll then focus on wellness, affirmations and goals.

My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems.

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

There's a great deal of stripping away; in early drafts, I may say the same thing two or three times, and each may be appropriate, but I try to pick the best and improve it. I work on sound a great deal, and I will change a word or two, revise punctuation and line breaks, looking for the sound I want.

Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.