Quotes About Clarity

I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.

The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

I'm a reporter by nature and training. I like things that make sense.

To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

Sometimes getting an idea of the trajectory we're on can be helpful and knowing where to go and what to avoid.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

Managing through ambiguity can be difficult for even the most experienced leaders. Defining a clear set of goals for your team demonstrates that there is an end in sight. However, it's crucial during this time to move through the transition in phases.

My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation.

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.

If the manager can't transmit his ideas, and the players don't understand it, you've a problem. When your players can follow it, though, you've already won a lot in a season.

Transparency increases credibility and accountability.

Transparency concentrates minds.

I believe in transparency.

Transparency is so important in business.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.