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Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.
The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
Never Explain Anything
In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.
See it big, and keep it simple.
Never explain, never complain.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
Are you trying not to give me information? Or is cryptic your only way of communicating?
Nicely put," I said. "And all in less than two minutes."
"Conciseness is underrated," she said easily.
If you would be pungent, be brief.
I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.
Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.
As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit
I don't know which is finally sicker
specifics or engulfing abstractions.
Unambiguous is nonexistent.
Be firm. Be bold.
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While
Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.
You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
Things get very clear when you're cornered.
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.
entirely clear over the screams of the crowds. The
If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.
I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.
Simplicity not simplistic.
The writer who has a definite meaning to express will not take refuge in such vagueness.
The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.
It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.
Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
I'm pretty outspoken.
We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.
Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
I'm a huge believer in clarity.
Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.
I would like to make one thing quite clear ... I never explain anything.
You either go direct, or you do not communicate. You
Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.
Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.
If you can't say it in three minutes, I don't want to know about it.
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
Never speak more clearly than you think.
When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.
I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused.
contemporaneously
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.
Complexity is the enemy of clarity
There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.
Count on big lines to express your ideas.
I need to be able to explain myself in context.
If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.
Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.
'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate ... I like some detail but not too much detail.
I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.
The less said the better.-- Jane Austen
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.
It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.
A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
If we cannot express our
assumptions explicitly in ways that
others can understand and build
upon, there can be no larger process
of testing those assumptions and
building public knowledge.
A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what the writer has to say
The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
There's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.
You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.
The obvious is obviously wrong.
Show Us, Don't Tell Us
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
What's obvious to you is obvious to you.
Clarity enables Empowerment
Good explanations are like bathing suits, darling; they are meant to reveal everything by covering only what is necessary.
Well, that's as clear as mud
KISS: Keep it simple stupid".
Sometimes symbolism is too obvious.
If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.
Simple is the only way I can write.
It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.
It's hard for me to articulate myself.
The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
Never do anything directly that you can do by indirection.
...radiating honest ignorance
If you want to be clear, act.
I like definitive things.
How is that weird?" Dark the First asked incredulously. "Literally everyone does it. Literally."
"I really wish you'd stop saying literally," Dark the Second said. "I literally don't think you understand what that word means.
Details are all there are.
Make it so good and so clear that it doesn't need any further explanation.
I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.