clarity quotes

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.