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Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision

Striving for accurate communication in written and oral form. Think Clearly!

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn’t make sense
James Thurber
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
Werner Karl Heisenberg
He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 13:3
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug.
Mark Twain
Within the word we find two dimensions—reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.
Paulo Freire
I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.
Francis Galton
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
Booker T. Washington
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill
We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.
Cullen Hightower
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michael De Montaigne
There are people who want to be everywhere at once... and they get nowhere
Carl Sandburg
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Alberto Tomba
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.
Sarah J. Hale
Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer
What we don't understand we don't possess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think the language is one factor that has prevented us from being able even to conceptualize mind/body processes. Just the fact that we use one kind of intangible language to describe the mind and another kind of material language to describe the body--languages that don't even have a way of connecting--prevents us from seeing that these two kinds of phenomena are actually two manifestations of the same process, neither one more important than the other, and neither causing the other. If we ca figure out ways to talk that allow us to think about the mind and body as one and the same, we'd be better off
Margaret Kemeny
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