Quotes About Clarity

I have an excellent internal compass.

Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation.

When you're writing something to direct, you just write exactly what you're going to do. You don't have to write it in a way for other people to understand or interpret.

The fact is I have an interpreter because he gives me the security that, when I have to answer complex questions, and with my complex answers, it's much better I have an interpreter to make sure nothing is misconstrued.

If I say one thing to the UFC, I say it in an interview. I don't have conflicting stories.

The number one problem companies have during the Y Combinator interview is that a minute into the interview, we don't know what they do. It's the same problem with the application. You might think we're experts, but you still have to explain it to us.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.

There is an old Zen saying about seeing the moon's reflection in a pond. If the surface of the pond is agitated and full of ripples, the moon's reflection won't look anything like the moon. That agitation, those ripples, are your constant thoughts and feelings, which disturb your ability to perceive truth. When the pond is perfectly still, however -when your thoughts and feelings withdraw and stay quiet -then you can see the moon's reflection. You can perceive the truth.

She knew exactly, sort of, what she was going to do.

You know you're doing the right thing if you don't have to tap-dance.

It's when you have to go outside and define everything that they often disappear. In

the night of thought is the light of perception.

Di solito nei nostri muri trasparenti, che sembrano tessuti d'aria scintillante, noi viviamo sempre in bella vista, eternamente lavati dalla luce. Non abbiamo da nasconderci nulla l'un l'altro.

Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harm.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Go in fear of abstractions.

Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities—

Incompetence will show in the use of too many words. The reader's first and simplest test of an author will be to look for words that do not function; that contribute nothing to the meaning OR that distract from the MOST important factor of the meaning to factors of minor importance.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the bad writer wants to do harm.

The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Guide to Kulchur.

Glance is the enemy of vision.