Quotes about Clarity

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.

Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, What are your thinking about? you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.

In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.