Quotes About Clarity

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make a small house. The more words you have, the clearer your thoughts, and the more clearly you can convey them.

I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.

Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.

I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.

You can film me 24 hours a day and you'll get a very accurate picture of who I am. You see the funny side, I work hard, and I try to be honest and just call it how it is.

One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound.

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don't really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.