Quotes About Clarity

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

I am a big proponent of writing a great outline. That way you can avoid hitting a roadblock. There is no worse feeling than writing yourself into a corner but if you've figured it all out in the outline then you won't have that problem.

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Context is worth 80 IQ points.

There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

I'm not a super nervous guy in general. I don't live a ton of my life in my head.

Alexander Payne is one of those directors who is completely in charge and knows exactly what he wants, which is really fun. It's fun when a director is very specific. He knows totally the tone that he's going for. It makes it easier than if everyone's just guessing and trying to figure it out.

I don't try to worry about sounding like anybody because I know I have my own tone, my own sound. It's just about being honest in a song and trying to relate myself or how to basically break it down as simple as possible for someone to try to understand it. Not being too deep, not being too shallow at the same time.

Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.

I will speak with a straight tongue.

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.