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.

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

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

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

As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

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.

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.

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

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 world remains ever the same.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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.

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

Good writing is like a windowpane.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

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.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

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.

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

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

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

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

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

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

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.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals.

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.

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

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.

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.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

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

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.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

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

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially – I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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

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

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

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.

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

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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