Quotes About Clarity

But just let your words ring true.

The sun shines in a bucket of water and doesn't get wet.

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book.

Too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

We were never wet. It was never wet," Lutz told the Advocate.

Because this is one of the things I learned on my own: you need to say things simply, especially when they're complicated.

You can wait only so long for a blackened window to be illuminated.

Love, love: it was never as pure as you needed it to be. That was the good thing about hate. If you hated someone, really hated him, then you could wish him dead and never once worry that you would change your mind about it.

It was like waking up in the middle of the night and seeing a man sitting on your floor and asking him who he is, what he's doing there, and he doesn't answer, and he doesn't answer, until you gradually realize he doesn't answer because he's a pile of dirty clothes that you were supposed to put in the hamper, and you end up being relieved and then disappointed. The man pushing the vacuum cleaner turned it on when he got to within a foot of me. It whined.

I ended up learning so many things from my aunt. And one of those things was to always wait three seconds before responding to anything that might be important. This was why she so often adjusted her glasses. To buy her those three seconds. So that she'd make sure to take the time to decide whether the first thing she'd wanted to say was the right thing.

How freeing it can be to realize that maybe we don't "need" everything we think we do-instead, what we need to do is scale back on our perceived needs.

The principle is this: When you write, you make a point not by subtracting as though you sharpened a pencil, but by adding. When you put one word after another, your statement should be more precise the more you add. If the result is otherwise, you have added the wrong thing, or you have added more than was needed. Erskine

Sentences that bring ideas and images into clearer focus by adding more useful details and explanation are generally more effective than those that are less clearly focused and that offer fewer details.

Unless the situation demands otherwise, sentences that convey more information are more effective than those that convey less. Sentences

Strunk and White do a great job of reminding us to avoid needless words, but they don't begin to consider all of the ways in which more words might actually be needed. My goal will be to explain why, in many cases, we need to add words to improve our writing, as Faulkner so frequently does, rather than trying to pare our writing down to some kind of telegraphic minimum, as is frequently the case with Hemingway.

The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.

Als ik Hem in geloof zie, zie ik eigenlijk zo goed dat ik soms zeg: 'Ik geloof niet meer! Ik zie!

Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.

It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

there is nothing I do that doesn't start with my asking myself, What is my intention in doing this?