Quotes About Clarity

Of course I mean it," Cinderpelt mewed dryly. "I don't talk for the pleasure of hearing my own voice.

purpose, even if he didn't understand what it was.

He tried hard to speak calmly, and to ask sensible questions that would help him understand.

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CHAPTER 6 Dovewing

This one will see into the shadows.

I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it." "What weapon is that?" Della Street asked. "The truth," Mason said.

I know a helluva lot. I'm not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It's confusing.

Es más fácil escoger de una vez para siempre que verte aturdido cada vez que vas a comprar algo nuevo.

Ambiguity is telling you something important, if only you took it seriously. If you did not quickly dispatch it as a pathology.

A thin present issues from a thin, sketchy, rudimentary relation with the future--one that has not much structure to it.

I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down.

This human understands enough to know when he's being messed with.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Never confuse movement with action.

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.

el enamorado es el que descubre en el ser amado unas perfecciones que realmente tiene pero que los demás no son capaces de ver. No es un visionario sino un clarividente.

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

Die Blindheit wächst mit der Aufklärung; der Mensch bewegt sich in einem Irrgarten von Licht. Er kennt die Macht der Finsternis nicht mehr. GESAMT WERKE. Band 2.

At the bottom I was quite content, for though I have never had great cares I have never had so care-free a life as at the front. Everything is clear and simple. My rights and duties are prescribed. I need earn no money. My food is provided me, and if things go badly with me I have a thousend fellow-sufferers, and above all, the shadow of death reduces every problem to a pleasant insignificance.