Quotes about Clarity

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. —DON MARQUIS

Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.

One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.

Poet and novelist James Joyce said, "Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it." The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness. And middle leaders are usually the busiest people in an organization.

Perspective separates leaders and followers more than any other characteristic. Leaders see before followers do; they see beyond what followers do; and they see bigger than followers do.

Because I lacked the ability to prioritize correctly and bring focus to my leadership.

The mind will not focus until it has clear objectives. But the purpose of goals is to focus your attention and give you direction, not to identify a final destination.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.

Theodore Hesburgh said, "The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you can articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." An "uncertain trumpet" is usually the result of an individual who either lacks a vision or is trying to lead with someone else's dream. There is a vast difference between a person with a vision and a visionary person.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. —John C. Maxwell

to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.