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Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

Franz Wright

We believe that transparency creates trust.

Julie Sweet

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Roy E. Disney

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hare

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

James Cash Penney

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

Annabelle Selldorf

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

Nancy Duarte

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

With clearly defined roles and a focus on communication, it's much easier to make your company come across as well-organized and on top of things - because it actually is.

Kathryn Minshew

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter

Clarity of communication is important.

Lisa Su

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Roy E. Disney

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

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

Isaac Newton

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

John Ruskin

Exactitude is not truth.

Henri Matisse

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Thomas a Kempis

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

Clarity affords focus.

Thomas Leonard

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

Mary Pierce

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

Richard Holloway

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

Mark Goulston

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Niklaus Wirth

Through systematic exercising of our thinking faculties, we can train ourselves for exact clairvoyance. Imaginative Knowledge is the first step in supersensible perception, and through it we reach the first element of the supersensible it is possible to reach, namely, the supersensible body that we bear within our earthly body in physical space.

Rudolf Steiner

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

George Oppen

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.

Jack Canfield

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

Conor McGregor

The best vision is insight.

Malcolm Forbes

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

Simon Mainwaring

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Thomas Reid

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Russell Page

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Max Weber

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Carl von Clausewitz

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

John Tukey

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Political courage requires clarity.

Joe Klein