Quotes about Clarity

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

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!

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

When there is no vision, people perish.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.