Quotes About Clarity

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.

The time to being writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

Schreiben ist leicht, man muss nur die falschen Worte weglassen.

Fifthly, I would do away with those great long compounded words; or require the speaker to deliver them in sections, with intermissions for refreshments. To wholly do away with them would be best, for ideas are more easily received and digested when they come one at a time than when they come in bulk. Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than with a shovel.

The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.- Mark Twain (Letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888)

Light them both —I'll have to have one to see the other by.

Keep your feelings where you can reach them with the dictionary.

So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air!

Dan's voice rose on the air: Oh, bring some soap, why don't you! The reply was Italian. Dan resumed: Soap, you know—soap. That is what I want—soap. S-o-a-p, soap; s-o-p-e, soap; s-o-u-p, soap. Hurry up! I don't know how you Irish spell it, but I want it. Spell it to suit yourself, but fetch it. I'm freezing.

To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.

If one keep to the things he knows, and not trouble about the things which he cannot be sure about, he will have the steadier mind for it.

La diferencia entre la palabra acertada y la palabra casi acertada es la que hay entre la luz de un rayo y una luciérnaga.

We are waenkkd , hj

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.

I'm willing to make sense as soon as the rest of the world does.

All that fancy wine in my basement was nothing but alcohol. What was I going to do about the couple thousand dollars' worth of Bordeaux futures I owned? I cried tears of joy for having been such an idiot and having things now be so clear. It was also an enormous relief that, since I knew what the problem was, I wouldn't have to do anything degrading like go to a hospital.

Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.

In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become. These

Often we see the situation (A) and the reaction (C) but are unaware of the interpretation (B).

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.