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I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.
Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.
Clarity is blinding and can be the most destructive element of all in human relations.
Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
The inner eye does not see upon command.
Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.
How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.
Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
There must be consistency in direction.
To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
The chief merit of language is clearness.
In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.
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.
Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what's in front of us. And sometimes, we don't see clearly at all.
Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.
Eyes to do, but what he knows to be absolutely
Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.
Subject is known by what she sees.
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
Can man direct his course?
[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.
Your direction is a result of your perception.
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
Perception is projection
There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer.
Words speak to the mind through the ears; actions speak to the mind through the eye
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.
Too much zeal offends where indirection works.
If one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice among every thing that is exact, one would hardly think of many questions, and certain notions ... would escape us completely.
Barthes found the exit to this merry-go-round by reminding himself that "it is language which is assertive, not he." It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty,
Clearly see you can't see Clear
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.
It is a direction not a destination.
Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
Vision is capturing God's assignment
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.
One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?
[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.
I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.
Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.
the autonomy of syntax;
Pay attention to that which sees the mind.
Reading is seeing by proxy.
It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.
Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Anticipation forward points the view.
I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.
Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.
The head knows the goal; and the path is his tool.
Language is insight itself.
Focus is the most important element of clarity.
Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:
Clarity enables Empowerment
Curran never does anything without a reason," he said. "I was told you'd met him. Perhaps you indirectly challenged him at that meeting."
Indirectly? I had challenged him deliberately.
For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.
The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
Well-determined centers of revery are means of communication between men who dream as surely as well-defined concepts are means of communications between men who think.
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
It is only with the eye that one can see rightly
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
When being objective, we can transcend and look back at our constructs with powerful clarity; instead of looking through them, which can give a murky and distorted view.
What's wrong with discourses about the obvious is that they corrupt consciousness with their easiness, with the speed with which they provide one with moral comfort, with the sensation of being right.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or ... he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.
Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.
If you want to direct, you've got to work.
Truth's nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency.
In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant
More learned than the ears.
Vision is seeing the invisible.
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.
Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
The eyes of the creative spirit can see in all directions.
The pursuit of your vision determines your focus
Point of view is everything.
Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT.
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task ... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
A clear vision makes the soul merry
A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting ...