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Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am.
Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me.
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.
So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
Cliches are what make you understand something.
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
When every action has a purpose, every action has a result
Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
When you do something, you have to know exactly what you're doing.
You give me such clarity.
Our job is to execute.
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
Sometimes in our zeal to "apply" a text, we fail to read the text in its context. And more often than we may all care to admit, our frustrations over how to apply a text can be completely resolved with a more accurate interpretation.
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.
Whatever the self describes, describes the self.
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
There's something to be said for doing one thing right.
If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.
Meaning is something not what you say but how you say it.
We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.
Words fall short sometimes.
When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.
The Larger A Purpose, The Bigger The Manifestation
Not everything has to be immediate.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.
To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.
Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious," said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.
I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.
The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
By keeping the truly important things front and center, we often get the perspective we need to make better decisions.
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
Yes," Gary agreed, "and if less is more, then logically, more must be even more than that.
Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
But once you describe something, you destroy it.
Anybody doing something brings something to it.
If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.
Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.
I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
Action expresses priorities.
Things become clear when there is no escape.
Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.
A purpose does not just happen, it is cultivated.
EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE UNTIL YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
There is a rationale for every action.
He who acts (with an ulterior purpose) does harm; he who takes hold of a thing (in the same way) loses his hold.
Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.
Every little movement has a meaning of its own,
It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.
Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
What is done well is done quickly enough.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done.
We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
At some point, there would simply be no point.
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as ...
No action is safe from meaning.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
Fulfilling our purpose is part of who we are
Actions must have consequences.
A word is worth a thousand pictures.
It's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
The end must justify the means.
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends.
No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.
Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.
Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.
Words mean what you want them to mean.Words-- Ally Condie
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
Restriction often enhances clarity.
Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.
Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.
It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.
A human being does at all times only what he wills, and yet does it necessarily. But that rests on the fact that he is what he wills: for out of what he is everything that he does at any time follows necessarily.